Quotes About Resolution

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

My project . . . is solving the case." "Solving it?" Charles said, cocking his head. "Doing a report on it?" "No," she said. "I mean . . . figuring out what happened." Charles removed his glasses, folded them, and leaned back in his chair. "That's a fairly tall order

Mr. Roark, I'm so sorry about—" she hesitated demurely "—about what happened this morning.

Jim appeared to her suddenly as a man who had tried to find a middle course between two poles—Meigs and herself—and who was now seeing that his course was narrowing and that he was to be ground between two straight walls.

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

What had Frank called college? An advanced degree in compromise.

It is harder to end a war, than begin one.

I resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. For it turned out there was no single way to be Black; just trying to be a good man was enough.

When my tears were finally spent, I felt a calmness wash over me. I felt the circle finally close.

For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window.

If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels.

You've built the fire up way too hot," I told her. "Go to hell, Leah, just go straight, directly to hell.

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

and with great solemnity, 'I'm glad yer stopped 'em fighting. I'm scared

dispositive.

And divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?

Nerves, he thought, were for people who hadn't entirely made up their minds.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it's the solution.

Can we get something out the way

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

you're not going to talk your way out of a problem you behaved yourself into.

Anything less than Win/Win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship. The cost of that impact needs to be carefully considered. If you can't reach a true Win/Win, you're very often better off to go for No Deal.

I just can't seem to keep a promise I make to myself.

followed, almost any perception problem can be solved. So can most credibility problems, if one or both of the parties involved will realize that, at root, it is a perception problem