Quotes About Resolution

the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter

All she wishes is for her life to be integrated, to be one thing, rather than an eternal series of oppositions that confound her whichever way she looks.

I was surprised by the discovery that Gerard had a child. In the time when I knew him he had been so far from resolving the difficulties of his own childhood that it was hard to believe he was now a father.

And I realised eventually, I said, that it could never be resolved, not so long as the aim was to establish the truth, for there was no single truth any more, that was the point. There was no longer a shared vision, a shared reality even. Each of them saw things now solely from his own perspective: there was only point of view.

That's what peace processes are about - changing bullets for votes.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

Negotiating isn't about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It's not an 'either/or situation.' It's about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I've had to learn this hard lesson.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.

A coward is not someone who goes right to your face and tells you exactly how it is. A coward is someone who walks away.

The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'

Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.

If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.

I suppose that every relationship I have been in has had a lot of arguments. I find it very hard to keep things at the bickering level.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.