Quotes About Resolution

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.

God! Molly, will you just stop and listen to me?" he begged, trying to wrap himself around me again. I pushed him away. "What could you possibly say that I'd want to hear?" I demanded, slapping his lying arms away. "I love you," he pleaded. And it broke my heart into a thousand tiny pieces. Because it was only now, when I knew that I could never stand to be near him again, that he was telling me what I'd always wanted to hear.

Taking responsibility for situations, regardless of who caused them, always helps to expedite resolving

If you make it clear that you are dead serious and will fight to the end about a particular issue, you force more possibilities to arise.

all problems can be solved if enough intensity and focus are applied.

Effective management of open issues is purely about diligence. Someone has to both investigate potential problems and take the time to write them down.

For every awkward debate on a P2, there was often a private Skype chat where it was resolved. Matt set good examples for praising in public and critiquing in private.

we're what you call heterogenous. That means we're everywhere, everybody at once. We're both good and bad, right and wrong. We're the great resolvers of conflict. We're like octopuses--because we'll swallow anything. Even men. Even battling and forlorn men like you and your dad. You guys try so hard to be subjects, characters, things, you forget us women are the whole story. We embrace you all. What you really want to destroy is women, that story of yourself you can't control.

Have you considered extreme, desperate measures like talking to her again?" "Yeah, but, well..." "You've yeah-but your way to this point," said Jean. "You're going to yeah-but this mess until it's time to go home, and I don't doubt you'll yeah-but her out of your life. Quit circling at a distance. Go talk to her, for Preva's sake.

You were talking to her before, right?" "Yeah. It was going well. Now it's all strange." "Have you considered extreme, desperate measures like talking to her again?

Ezri, if you need to hit me, then by the gods hit me. If that's what you need, I won't fight you for a second. Not ever. Just...tell me what you want.

For example, if the two of you tend to escalate when you try to talk about issues, you need to master some form of Time Out. Likewise, if you want to communicate more effectively, you need to practice using the Speaker-Listener Technique until the underlying principles become second nature. You cannot wish the negative patterns away. You have to drive them away by replacing them with new behaviors and attitudes.

Because the gospel is true, I don't respond to Joshua's bold charge with a list of New Year's resolutions—promises of what I'm going to do for you. Rather, I begin this year resolving to abandon myself to everything Jesus has done for us. Jesus is the promise keeper, not us. He's the one who has promised to make all things new, including me.

The end of art is peace.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.