Quotes About Resolution

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Peace imposible, war improbable.

She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. After a time, she quit trying.

He left through the patio door. He was not certain, but he thought he had proved something. He hoped he had made something clear. The thing was, they had to have a serious talk soon. There were things that needed talking about, important things that had to be discussed. They'd talk again. Maybe after the holidays were over and things got back to normal. He'd tell her the goddamn ashtray was a goddamn dish, for example.

We had quite a fight.' 'You mean you had – and mostly with yourself.

Guns never settle anything," I said. "They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act.

Good-bye, Linda. I hope you find what you want.' 'Good-bye,' she said coldly. 'I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

then Malloy took the gun away from whoever did it.

Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability.

It is the nature of things that many people are more interested in affixing blame than fixing the problem.

When it comes to dealing with a social movement, society has only two options: either it can address the members' grievances, thereby making the movement irrelevant, or it can deflect those grievances and further radicalise the movement. Or as Sidney Tarrow puts it, actions that begin in the streets [can be] resolved in the halls of government or by the bayonets of the army.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn't agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from.

It's easy to blame, easy to want revenge. But when you look at things closely, you start to see that every event is locked onto every other event; that sometimes things happen just because they happen. None of us like to think that's so, because then we can never strike out at someone to ease the pain; we have to find another way, and none of the other ways are so simple, or so satisfying.

If you don't want to "sweat the small stuff," it's critical that you choose your battles wisely.

It was like resolution. The circling antagonisms collapsed inward like orbitals crashing and burning, surrendering to a mutual gravity that had dragged like chains while it endured but in release was a streak of fire through the nerves.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off? QUELLCRIST FALCONER Campaign Diaries

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.