Resolution famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
-- Agatha Christie -
Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.
-- Al Swearengen -
For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.
-- Alec Douglas-Home -
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
-- Arlen Specter -
Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.
-- Auren Hoffman -
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
-- C.D. Wright -
There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress.
-- Carl Levin -
What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?
-- Cheryl Richardson -
If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.
-- Clare Short -
Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.
-- Claude Shannon -
Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
-- Clayton Christensen -
I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.
-- Daniel Tosh -
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
-- Dave Beard -
There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
-- Dick Thornburgh -
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
-- Genrich Altshuller -
Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
-- Graham Nelson -
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.
-- Hassan Nasrallah -
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 -
Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
-- Hugh Reginald Haweis -
I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
-- Ian K. Smith -
We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.
-- John Burroughs -
I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.
-- John Nolte -
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
-- John Selden -
Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
-- Jose Maria Aznar -
My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
-- Kiki Smith -
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
-- Ludwig Quidde -
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
-- Marcel Proust -
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
-- Mercy Otis Warren -
Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.
-- Mike Jackson -
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
-- Milan Kundera -
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
-- Og Mandino -
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
-- Oliver Cromwell -
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.
-- Paul Wellstone -
Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
-- Rick Warren -
Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
-- Robert Herrick -
Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski -
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
It's much better to invite the audience to be part of your show rather than saying, "I command you to do this." The other thing is, you have to follow through. If you initiate a game and they take part, you can't stop until it reaches a mutually satisfying resolution.
-- Stephen Colbert -
There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
-- Sterling W Sill -
Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
-- Tony Robbins -
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.
-- William Cowper -
We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
-- William Hague -
We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.
-- Alex J. Morrison -
It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia has a veto in the U.N. Security Council.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten -
We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.
-- Linda Lantieri -
One of my New Year's resolutions is to say 'yes!' Yes to love, yes to life, yes to staying in more!
-- LIZ -
Every time North Korea commits an additional provocation, the U.N. Security Council passes another resolution. But when it comes to dialogue, currently there is nothing set. I hope to have frank and open discussions with President Trump on this issue.
-- Moon Jae-in -
Trump has put the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue at the top of his priority list, and he has employed a tactic of maximum pressure and engagement, but engagement can only occur if the conditions are right.
-- Moon Jae-in -
You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.
-- Vivek Shraya -
I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.
-- Danzy Senna -
I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.
-- Henry Hyde -
One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house had passed, saying what you're doing is unacceptable to Congress, that shot across the bow might have straightened him up.
-- John Dean
