Quotes About Resolution

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

All verbal spats have silent winners.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.