Quotes About Resolution

No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.

We need to restart political processes to end wars.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

We would be going to war for peace.

Can you not see that it's no longer a question of dragon versus human? The division now is between those who think this peace is worth preserving and those who would keep us at war until one side or the other is destroyed.

He drummed the table with his fingers and chewed his bottom lip. "Who knows what she wants. She says she's forgiven me. That I should come home." I forked a piece of corned beef off his plate. "End of relationship haiku." He counted on his fingers--five-seven-five--and that perfect smile of his peeked from the gloom.

I think we're too unhappy to get a divorce.

The answer is not coming. I have to find an arbitrary point inside the spell of waiting, the open absence, and tear myself away. Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me." "Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson." He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely." "Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

if you become angry over little things, the big issues are never even addressed. As

Sometimes it is better to find the spot where we agree and build a relationship that will be the best medium for working through our difficulties.

By this momentous resolution the Congress had conceded Pakistan, while also insisting that east Punjab would stay out of it. (The implied demand that Bengal should be similarly divided was soon made explicit.) When the League asked for a division of India, the Congress had said no. Now, along with Punjab's Sikh and Hindu leaders, the Congress was demanding a division of Punjab.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, 2nd edition,

What is your state of soul with respect to mortal sin? Are you firmly resolved never to commit it for any reason whatsoever? . . . In this resolution consists the foundation of the spiritual life.

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict??how to contain it, or abolish it.