Quotes About Resolution

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a great speech and impress them. Instead, I will go down and discuss with those people about certain issues that we don't agree, and over a glass of wine we talk about it and they say 'okay, let's forget it.'

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

I am all for a good drag out argument every now and then, but the person that talks the loudest and uses the most curse words is not necessarily the winner of the argument.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Once I close the doors, it's closed. I don't open it back up. That's kind of me as a human being. That's just one of the things about me... But yeah, for me, I don't close anything until I'm officially done.

Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.