Quotes About Resolution

In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can't articulate in words what that feeling is, I'm trying to find ways to get there.

Forcing polarized groups into a swarm allows them to find the answer that most people are satisfied with.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.

When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.

The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication.

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you want to end up? What's your endgame? We try to start from that and work ourselves back.