(816 quotes found)
“Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.”
Condoleezza Rice
“Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.”
Archibald Cox
“New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
Mark Twain
“A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden”
Mexican Proverb
“No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.”
David Hare
“I wish that men were as resolute as women”
Anne Javouhey
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
William Arthur Ward
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action”
William Shakespeare
“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.”
Eric Zorn
