Resolve Quotes - Page 34

• The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Men, Promise

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• The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Gentleman, Facts, Communism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

  Homer

  Adventure, Two, Resolution

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.260

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• The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.

  Henry Moore

  Memories, Artist, Two

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• There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Reality, Long

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Writing, Editing

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• When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Jesus, Anxiety

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• I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

  Bill James

  Trying, Answers, Break

  "Stats Geek Bill James Applies His Science to Serial Killers" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 04, 2011.

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• Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

  Kathy Reichs

  Fun, Murder Mysteries, Mystery

  "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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• There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, People, Waiting

  "Venezuelan election officials: Chavez re-elected as president, defeats Capriles". www.cnn.com. October 7, 2012.

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• When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Years, Law, Peaceful

  "International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  Aaron Siskind

  Successful, World, Photographer

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• Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Culture

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• I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

  Mitt Romney

  Causes, Clarity, Importance

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• Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.

  Mitt Romney

  Rely Upon, Clarity Of Purpose, Issues

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• My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

  Mitt Romney

  Doctrine, Purpose, Might

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• People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Circles, People

  "Who needs a bit on the side?" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

  Leon Krier

  Artist, Order, Ideas

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

  Alexander Pope

  Smart, Heart, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.80

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• With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Emotional, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  Olympia Snowe

  Leadership, Determination, President

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• Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and irregular or heavy cycles. Severe hypothyroidism may cause the menses to stop. Dr. Barnes noted his patients with menstrual problems usually suffered many other telltale symptoms of hypothyroidism. Mine do as well. A large majority of menstrual problems resolve after treatment with dessicated thyroid.

  Mark Starr

  Teenager, Pms, Suffering

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• Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Past, Play

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• For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Believe, Idaho, Land

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• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, Imitation, Repeats

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.158

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