Resolve Quotes
637 quotes by 511 authors
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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
— Honore de Balzac
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…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the…
— Meg Cabot
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When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected…
— Ilona Andrews
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The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the…
— David Foster Wallace
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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
— George Eliot
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Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she…
— Gregory Maguire
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There is no avoidance in delay.
— Aeschylus
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most…
— Thomas Hardy
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No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a…
— Robert Walser
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keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.
— Howard Thurman
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If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is,…
— Stephen Fry
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My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence
— Rick Riordan
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The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
— Henry Cloud
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He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,…
— A. S. Byatt
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He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.
— Darynda Jones
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit…
— Jack Zipes
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