Quotes about Resolution

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.

Tis dreadful for words and strife to happen between brothers, when they fall into dispute.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

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.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

When people feel like fighting, they are pretty good at coming