Quotes About Resolution

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

...there hardly ever existed such a thing as a bad Peace — or a good War...

In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry (Ephesians 4:26).

Der Krieg stellt Fragen, auf die der Frieden keine Antwort hat.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: "There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up again if necessary.

She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.

I feel calmed and relieved when my husband knocks at my study door in the middle of a fight, puts his arms around me, and says, "I love you. This is stupid. Let's just drop it." Like two kids in the sandbox, we're suddenly light and playful again.

venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.

The healing power of a good apology is also immediately recognizable. When someone offers me a genuine apology, I feel relieved and soothed. Whatever anger and resentment I may still be harboring melts away. I also feel better when I offer an apology I know is due. I'm enormously grateful that I can repair the disconnection after having made a mistake or acted badly.

It is amazing how frequently we march off to battle without knowing what the war is all about.

When we believe we won't get through to the offending party, we often increase the intensity and lengthen our arguments. This does not help---and usually hurts. We may not recognize that our tone of voice or the sheer number of sentences may be the culprit.

Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.

The absence of war is not peace.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

silencing doesn't resolve anything; rather than erase differences

Don't find fault, find a remedy. —Henry Ford