Quotes About Resolution

When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion.

Perhaps the two of us simply got off on the wrong foot, my lord. You seem to have received the mistaken impression that I came to Fairchild Park to make your life more difficult." "The words 'a living hell' have come to mind more than once since your arrival." She blew out a gusty sigh. "Contrary to what you may believe, I took this position so I could bring more ease to your life." "Just when were you planning to start?

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

My resolution was all well and good, but what really sustained me during those dark, lonely hours of the night was another deeper, more persistent thought. With every tick of the clock, I was one moment closer to being with Steve again.

We will find out. It will all become clear. Heaven is involved, and heaven never leaves anything in which it is involved unresolved.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

There's a problem out of every solution and a solution out of every problem

Eleven : *walks up to mike* Mike : 0-0 Eleven : I DUMP YOUR ASS. Mike : *surprised, sad, taken aback, broken-hearted, and a bunch of other negative feelings*

P]erhaps in this case, as often, the most courageous resolution might have been at the same time the most prudent

Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

compassion being measured by the amount of other people's money you are prepared to pay for the supposed resolution of a social problem.