Quotes About Resolution

Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.

We allow for complexity, and therefore make accommodations for disagreement and its patient resolution, in most of the big areas of life: international trade, immigration, oncology . . . But when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation. We would think it peculiar indeed to devote a two-day

THE REALITY: You are not getting what you want because your intentions are mixed, unclear, or contrary to what you say you want. When you clarify your intentions, your desired results will follow.

His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.

He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions

I do this not because I am courageous and honest, but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Who decides what justice is? How does one end this unending spiral of revenge where everyone believes they are right and their opponents are wrong?

I said go away!" "No, you said 'get out'. I'm out." "Now go away." Silence. And then, "No.

She knows your mother isn't here to protect you any more. But you know what the solution is: stay out of her way. Stay here. Stay with me.

Beauty flourishes on sorrow. It's enriched by the knowledge that life is fleeting, sometimes cruel, and often ends without resolution.

Mais quand t'en as marre de dire non, tu finis par dire oui pour avoir la paix, et les problèmes commencent.

We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.

No argument in the world is ever resolved. Resolving would suggest some liquid in which arguments could be immersed, perhaps love. But it must be love enough.

There was no call from anybody in the band to discuss any of the things that had been a problem or what I had done wrong.

The Great War (I) had taught everyone an important lesson: survival in the face of a common enemy depended on working together. That meant resolving differences peacefully...

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.