Resolution Quotes - Page 11

• Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

  Pascal Mercier

  Loyalty, Decision, Soul

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• But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pain, Years, Essence

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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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• The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the doctrines of a Buddhist orthodoxy. Individuation is a process of recovering personal authority through freeing ourselves from the constraints of collectively held belief systems.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhist, Practice, Priorities

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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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• 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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• It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Giving Up, Writing, Mean

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• We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Sacrifice, Democracy

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country will never notice whether we pass a budget resolution or not.

  Maya MacGuineas

  Country, Talking, People

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• You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can take a high enough resolution picture of all of you — not just your outsides, but your genes, your DNA, all the way down to your atoms — I can know everything about you and everything that you will be. There are people who believe this. And what this tells me is, no. No! All the way down, to the bottom of our thoughts, there’s just more mystery.

  Jad Abumrad

  Believe, Dna, People

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• There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow because they aren't crystal clear and perfect,so there is a kind of gauzy layer between you and what you see. You could argue it's the silence of them. You could say it's the sound of the projector that creates a moodiness. But there's something about looking at analog movies that's infinitely more powerful than digital.

  J. J. Abrams

  Powerful, Perfect, Silence

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

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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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• 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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• A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

  Ashanti

  New Year, Years, Decision

  "Ashanti’s #nofilter Challenge: Singer Discusses Honey Boo Boo And Her Ideal Death Row Meal", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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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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• The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hands, Feelings, Grace

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• Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

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• Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

  Barbara Boxer

  Military, Past, Iraq

  FaceBook post by Senator Barbara Boxer from May 22, 2014

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

  B. C. Forbes

  Determination, Exercise, Fighting

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• I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Heaven, Hell

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 47.

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• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Practice, Snow

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... 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

  Mother, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Humorous, Ambition

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• The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Knowledge, Science, Practice

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

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• Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

  Kofi Annan

  Law, People, Peaceful

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