Quotes About Resolution

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

Wars are hard to look at head-on.

Brothers argue in the heat of the moment, and then they make up.

The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.

The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.

When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

To prevent us from shooting each other in the darkness white armlets would be worn. At this moment a messenger arrived to say that there were no white armlets.

Having become permanent, the war ceased to be a war.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched. A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum.

And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. Who

We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do?