Quotes About Resolution

No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

When a person's conscience alerts them to an offense that is causing a rift in a relationship, it is important to attempt to reconcile quickly with the offended person.

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.

Since no grand resolution was available, the Gong memorial established a priority among the dangers, in effect based on the principle of defeating the near barbarians with the assistance of the far barbarians. It was a classical Chinese strategy that would be revisited roughly a hundred years later by Mao.

Pokud Ã…â"¢ádu nelze dosáhnout obecnou shodou ani jej vnutit silou, pak nelze jinak než jej za cenu katastrof a nelidskostí ukout ze zkuÅ¡enosti chaosu.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

At one point two guys looked to start fighting and I yelled for them to kill each other and then they made up and I told them to fuck each other.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

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.

Na maior parte das vezes, discutimos com ardor apenas porque não conseguimos de maneira alguma compreender o que exatamente o nosso adversário quer demonstrar.

questions which weren't solved by diplomats, would be less solved with powder and blood.

She said to herself: "No, just now I can't think of it, later on, when I am calmer." But this calm for thought never came; every time the thought rose of what she had done and what would happen to her, and what she ought to do, a horror came over her and she drove those thoughts away. "Later, later," she said—"when I am calmer.