Quotes About Resolution

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

War's balance will prevail.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

When a player leaves, it means all the parties involved took this decision.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

Litigation solves everything.

Most love stories that we see on screen end at them getting together. It's the will they or won't they, and then they do and then we end.

Please go away," she whispered. "Leave me in peace." He scowled. "Cecily…" "Please, Tate," she pleaded gently. "Just go home and forget that you know where I am. I've broken all my ties in Washington, I've put it all behind me. It's just me and the baby now." "You and the baby and your mythical dead husband," he shot back. "What do I have to do to get through to you?

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

I made a resolution to telephone my mother the next day, but it was a safe resolution; no one can hold you to a decision made in middle of the night.And then my spine sent me an alarm. A presence. Here. Now. At my side.

Moments came back to him when he had behaved less honorably than he wished. He remembered instances of neglect and ingratitude. He felt the pang of remorse and resolved not to do the same again.

One of the first keys to success, he considered, was to recognize the difference between problems you could do something about and problems you could do nothing about.

It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life.

The tremendous bruising force of history, sometimes random, often without logic or resolution, may produce a work of fiction that leans for its effectiveness on structure and pattern, on a detailed unraveling of some old perplexity or anxiety, some lingering confusion out there, in three dimensions, where the blood is thick and real but the gunshots can go uncounted.

I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

In my opinion the misappropriation of the longing for God has caused a lot of people a great deal of pain. In fact, I wondered if some of my early mistakes in relationships weren't partly because I sought to find resolution for the longing through a woman, a burden no romantic partner should have to bear. How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other?

Good Story Loves Contrast

It's this contrast that keeps the audience on their toes and paying attention. It's as though the story works like this: Scene one (+): Our hero really wants something. Scene two (-): But the opportunity to get that something has been taken away. Scene three (+): An opportunity arises that might help the hero get what they want. Scene four (-): But that opportunity falls through.