Quotes About Resolution

I've always been a peacemaker.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Every time Burundians sat together, they found lasting solutions to the problems which opposed them

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

One of the biggest mistakes of the negotiations is your interfere with your antagonist when he is making a mistake.

Shortening debate of divergences yields worse decisions.

We do not need to face every issue with retractation. Justice resides quietly in the seat of power.

You have to remember, dear interlocutors, and never forget: that the ultimate goal of negotiating is convergence- not unconditional surrender.

Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

That, in brief, is the problem—criticism as the first step in a discussion stops the discussion and is therefore, generally the last step as well. It is an entirely different matter if I hear the other person first, understand what she is trying to do, then talk with her about better ways to do it.

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall.

There should be a new literary resolution: no more epiphanies. Enough. Have pity on readers who reach the end of a real-life conflict in confusion and don't experience a false sense of temporary enlightenment.

But it is not merely a taboo against complaint that makes the hardship of motherhood inadmissable: like all loves this one has a conflicted core, a grain of torment that buffs the pearl of pleasure; unlike other loves, this conflict has no possibility of resolution.

But I do admit that it has brought nearly all of my relationships to an end, because it is inevitable that that end is also – as you say, by the same logic – something I will feel driven to provoke.