Quotes About Resolution

We were looking for an acceptable compromise.

la confusión conduce siempre a la certeza si uno se da el tiempo suficiente de permanecer confuso.

El Destino (tal es el nombre que aplicamos a la infinita operación incesante de millares de causas entreveradas) no lo resolvió así.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

And that, said John, is that.

Rendez-moi les cahiers. Je vais les enterrer quelque part dans la forêt. — Oui, enterrez-les. Ou, mieux encore, brûlez-les. C'est la seule solution pour que personne ne puisse les lire.

You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?" "I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

I'm not really sure how we've arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I'd be a great deal happier if we weren't pointing these things at one another, wouldn't you?

Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it.

I'm finding out that if you have the ending from the get-go, then you're in good shape. Problem is, I rarely have the ending from the get-go.

A story with a clear ending, happy or sad, is an acceptable story.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

When all else fails, men turn to reason.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

The only thing we knew for certain was the American Civil War was not a prelude to a kiss.

Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

I have not forgotten about the REO Speedwagon incident. No more of that. Never.

We came to fight, but find only feasts.

What Kennedy had taught him, he said, was not to hit complex problems head-on. Instead, envision the problem as a wall of bricks. "Try to identify a few bricks -- if you take them out the wall will collapse by itself," Grant had said.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything