Quotes About Resolution

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them

you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

September] 27th [1862] If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.

Something about this place screams denouement.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist." ? Adrian McKinty, The Island

A cold sentiment deserved a frigid end.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another—which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.