Quotes About Resolution

She technically apologized yesterday, but it was one of those married-people apologies, more of a tactical move than anything else, a way of moving on with things.

Je connais mon coeur, ce coeur, ce nÅ"ud de vipères: etoufflé sous elles, saturé de leur venin, il continue de battre au-dessous de ce grouillement. Ce nÅ"ud de vipères qu'il est impossible de dénouer, qu'il faudrait trancher d'un coup de couteau, d'un coup de glaive: "Je ne suis pas venu apporter la paix mais le glaive

Then literature has the glorious solitude of reason, that rarefied life at the heart of the whole which would require resolution and courage if this reason were not in fact the stability of an ordered aristocratic society; that is, the noble satisfaction of a part of society which concentrates the whole within itself by isolating itself well above what sustains it.

Nevertheless, as Terray declared later, nothing would ever equal those first desperate days when he put forth every ounce of his courage, strength and resolution.

It had been very well done, Ronicky decided, Blondy had acquitted himself with just the right edge to his voice. He had not been sickeningly acquiescent. Neither had he been stupidly defiant. But

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

Ve? dugo se u meni miješa vrijeme i prostor, pa ne znam gdje sam, ni kad se to desilo što mislim. Ne postoje granice, kao u pustinji, kao na nebu, i sje?anja mirno prelaze, smještaju?i se ondje gdje im je zgodnije. Li?e na oblake, svejedno im je gdje su, svejedno im je kad nastanu i kad nestanu. To mi ne smeta, ?ak je ugodno: ne osje?am potrebu da išta razrješavam.

That's it," Piper said. "That's the end." But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone.

Minden háború történetének van fordulópontja, és minden emberének is.

I'd looked and looked at him for so long; I'd made a habit of it, a vocation, and I could stop looking now.

Elliott took a long, deep breath. "Look. We seem to have had a misunderstanding.…" "Really?" Eyes snapping fire, Simone faced him. "Really. A misunderstanding. What part of 'I don't want to see you again, and I don't want you to come to my office' did I misunderstand? Because it seemed pretty fucking crystal to me." He winced. "No. That part was right.

there's too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.

She didn't really want to have a baby; she wanted to want to have a baby.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all....

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!

There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!

My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.