Resolution Quotes - Page 17

• As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Mean, Doctors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  Wendell Willkie

  Honesty, Work, Winning

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• There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Character, Artist, Space

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• "That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

  Julian Baggini

  Law, Stronger, Doe

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Determination, Father

  Charles Dickens (2014). “David Copperfield (Illustrated)”, p.537, BookRix

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• Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.

  Robert Walser

  Beautiful, Facts, Wonderful

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.

  David Levithan

  Simple, Want, Way

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• I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Temptation, Why Not

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• No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

  Suze Orman

  Financial, February, January

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• Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

  Ron Paul

  Simple, Government, Vote

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.430, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Pain

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Determination, Way

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• Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Regret

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.288, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Lawrence Durrell

  Firsts, Dare, Deals

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Underdog, England

  "Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

  Vera Nazarian

  Color, Law, Justice

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• She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

  Zadie Smith

  Weather, Want, Ends

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• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

  C.D. Wright

  Lying, Doubt, Proliferation

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

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• They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Life, Effort, Waste

  Charles Robert Maturin (1819). “Sermons”, p.262

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• What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
  If not, what resolution from despair.

  John Milton

  Hope, Despair, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 190

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• All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

  Abdul Kalam

  War, Needs, Rebuilding

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• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

  Colin Powell

  United States, Purpose, Demand

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• We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Iraq, Including

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• I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Lightning, Wonder, Flash

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• It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Years, Hussein

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