Resolve Quotes
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In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
Carroll Quigley -
Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.
Mike Ferguson
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
George Eliot -
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
Home Run Baker -
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
Etienne de La Boetie -
No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.
Vladimir Putin -
It’s like we’re fairweather friends, pals if everything is hunky-dory. Friends are supposed to talk about things, weather the storms. Be friends, come what may. Resolve problems. Not first sign of trouble and ooh, we’re not talking to you. It’s pathetic. And now I’m mad.
Cathy Hopkins -
In many respects we have bought companies that are fundamentally strong, but have issues that we believe our management and our expertise can help resolve.
J. M. Roberts
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In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.
Mitch Glazer -
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
Hermann Hesse -
Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.
Deacon Jones -
The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.
Carlos Alvarado -
Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.
William Winwood Reade -
I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.
Judy Sheindlin
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There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.
John Warner -
Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.
Catherine Booth -
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
George Eliot -
When you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don’t be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.
Elizabeth Haydon -
Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.
Treat Williams -
Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.
Nick Bollettieri
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett -
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Rowan Williams -
Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.
Tom Ridge