Quotes About Resolution

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

It is easier to make war than peace.

nothing is accomplished when people face each other shouting words that neither hear.

When two sides to an issue become adversaries, cooperation is lost. The result is gridlock. Time and effort and energy are consumed that are desperately needed elsewhere.

Blaming someone else will only put the solution further out of reach.

Our long national nightmare is over.

It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've ever had, the dregs of every grievance, and you set the cup in front of the other person and force them to drink it.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.

All is well that ends well.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.