“More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.” PeopleUseEarthPlanetsComfortableToolsBillionsMapsResolutionGoogleGoogle MapsGoogle Earth Author:Rebecca Moore
“I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.” YearsWishMeditationResolutionNew YearNew Year's Resolutions Author:Natalie Dormer
“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.” IfsLawAnswersMembersUnderstoodDeserveCourtResponseBoundsObligationAttractiveResolutionStandpoint Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.” ThinkingShouldStatesActorsUnitedUnited StatesIssuesCrisisIncludingInternationalCommittedRussiaDialogueFranceEngagedGermanyAgreementResolutionRepublicUnconditionalInvolvementImplementationQuartetsUkrainianNormandy Author:Vladimir Putin
“How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which they had themselves adopted and supported. Why could it have been done there, but not in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Why not?” WellsHas BeensStatesDoneSecurityIntegritySouthResolutionWhy NotAdoptedCouncilTerritorialSecurity CouncilKosovo Author:Vladimir Putin
“... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.” ChristianEnemySeaWeaknessFirmOrthodoxResolutionOrthodox ChristianEnablingStrongholdsCitadels Author:Niketas Stethatos
“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.” HandsEffectsSecurityPassingPassingsResolutionVacationSecretaryCouncilCapsSecurity Council Author:Alex J. Morrison
“Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you are speaking about the charters again, you have to remember that the Israelis should recognize first the resolutions of the United Nations, according to [one of] which they became a state. Israel is the only state which was created by one of the United Nations resolutions.” IfsKnowsShouldTryingFirstsStatesRememberNationsUnitedCostIsraelResolutionUnited NationsCharter Author:Yasser Arafat
“The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.” WayStatesOrderUnitedCommonUnited StatesSecurityIncludingInternationalCommittedPeacefulResolutionRootedNormDisputesNavigationPeaceful Resolution Author:Barack Obama
“In the era of Khruschev the Soviet Union had publicly declared itself a supporter of the Indian stand on Kashmir. In 1962 a Russian veto had defeated a Security Council resolution on the plebiscite issue. By 1965, and after the fall of the Kruschev regime, Russian attitudes were significantly modified.” FallAttitudeIssuesSecurityUnionsErasIndianResolutionSovietRegimesDefeatedSupporterSoviet UnionCouncilKashmirVetoSecurity Council Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.” ThinkingWayIdeasEnoughReadingStuffUnderstandingCreativeFineModelsAimResolutionNew IdeasBe CreativeUnderstanding Things Author:Edward Boyden
“I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel were, movingly, friendly. From Truman, who was the first to recognize Israel 11 minutes after the U.N. resolution, to Obama. When it comes to the major issues of security and strategy, we are together, completely.” FirstsTogetherPresidentIssuesRecordsMinutesSecurityRepublicanMajorsStrategyDemocratIsraelFriendlyResolutionTruman Author:Shimon Peres
“We need some leverage with the Russians, because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution, unless there is some leverage over them.” NeedsTablesResolutionDiplomaticNegotiating Author:Hillary Clinton
“The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.” OpportunityEconomicPoliticianGreenDeterminedResolutionPartisansArrivingProspects Author:Van Jones
“Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, "living wills" (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions.” WayLongActionTermProgressPlansEventsIndependentResolutionFrankCollapseLong WayTransparencyLiquidityWinding DownDodd Frank Author:Jamie Dimon
“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.” GovernmentCompanyBunchSavingBrokeResolutionAssetsLoanSavings Author:Warren Buffett
“I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.” ThinkingWorldSometimesToo MuchThis WorldResolution Author:Jane Alison
“What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.” KindFacesActorsSkinsCamerasDialogueShootingResolution Author:Werner Herzog
“When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but I don't not look after a dermatological report of your cheeks, and that's what you see when you're too high-resolution. And now desperately in post-production, in color grading, they are trying to wipe out the precision of the dermatological report.” TryingLooksFacesColorCuriosityProductionsCuriousPostsReportsResolutionCheeksWipePrecisionPost Production Author:Werner Herzog
“[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.” WholePresidentDyingTaughtMeetingsInstanceEngagedResolutionCabinetsUnderwaterReefsScubaCoral ReefsMaldives Author:Bill McKibben
“I wanted to create a story that would address America's history, successes, and problems while pointing to a hopeful resolution. I wanted it to be told from the perspective of an "Everyman" point of view.” StoriesProblemWantedAmericaViewsPerspectivePoint Of ViewAddressesHopefulResolutionPointingEveryman Author:Sho Baraka
“Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my case, suddenly - we become resolved not to believe this anymore. It takes a dedicated practice to follow up on that resolution, because the conditioning is very strong to keep generating self-demeaning stories.” BelieveSelfStoriesStrongPracticeCasesGrewGrew UpResolutionDedicatedVery StrongConditioningDemeaningFollow Up Author:Tara Brach
“My hope was that by saying clearly to Saddam Hussein, "we're going to enforce UN Resolutions," that he would make the decision to leave peaceably and at least allow for inspectors to come into his country, and if he chose not to, there would be a military option. I want people to understand that the military was my last option. I had a strategy and hopefully solving the problem peacefully - and it wasn't just me, it was a coalition of nations that were involved.” PeopleIfsWantCountryProblemWould BeLastsNationsDecisionMilitaryInvolvedStrategyHopefullyResolutionSaddamHusseinCoalitionsInspectors Author:George W. Bush
“Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.” ThinkingUniverseExistencePlansArgumentPlanningResolutionCompellingUnlikelyParallelsTheoreticalMultiverseParallel Universe Author:Richard Dawkins
“There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.” BelieveDifferentHardProblemI BelieveTalkingIssuesEnvironmentImagineProgressImpossibleMovementAgreeMinistersRelatedResolutionPrimeCooperationImagine ThatDocumentsPrime MinisterPromotingProposeTreatiesTerritorialAbeWithout TrustPeace TreatiesTrusting Each Other Author:Vladimir Putin
“You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.” WantFactsPoliticalPlansWeekSecuritySeriousAdministrationResolutionAssetsCouncilSecurity CouncilDarfur Author:Samantha Power
“There's no UN resolution that allows the United States to carry out operations in Syria. You'll remember that in Libya in 2011 there was a great hoopla made about the importance of getting a UN resolution. Here there was no attempt to get any resolution. They simply bombed in Syria.” MadeStatesRememberUnitedUnited StatesImportanceOperationsResolutionSyriaLibya Author:Vijay Prashad
“The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.” KnowsInternationalResolutionNorm Author:Vijay Prashad
“My birthday is in August - right before September, so I have that "back to school" feeling ingrained in me so that time of year is when I usually do personal goals or resolutions.” YearsFeelingsSchoolGoalResolutionSeptemberAugustMy BirthdayPersonal Goal Author:Jen Kirkman
“For me, making any kind of resolution or saying, "I'm doing this!" can only cause pain, to get very deep.” KindPainCausesResolutionVery Deep Author:Jen Kirkman
“Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it. Then it would be for the joy of writing it. It wouldn't be like, "And it's going to be No. 1 and I'm going to get rich and go on a book tour and own a library." I don't know the difference between doing what I normally do and making a resolution. And if it doesn't happen, then I'm going to be miserable.” IfsKnowsWritingYearsBookHappensWould BeJoyDifferencesRichGoes OnLibraryMiserableResolutionGet Rich Author:Jen Kirkman
“After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition.” FirstsMayWarEndsBigsWould BeAbleTogetherEasyColdFantasticResolveResolutionDivisionRecallsCold WarCoalitionsEasy To GetGulf War Author:Kofi Annan
“When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.” PeopleThinkingForeverResolutionQuarrels Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.” HardFeelingsAsksAnswersResponsibleResolutionHard Questions Author:Vivek Shraya
“We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state.” NeedsStatesFactsMembersSolutionsFairsBasesResolutionCyprus Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence.” ThinkingMaySaidEventsIndependenceResolutionDeclarationDeclaration Of Independence Author:Gordon S. Wood
“There are really two things that drive New Year's resolution success. Number one is telling somebody about your goal. Chances are, they'll either join you in pursuing it or at least support you. Number two is to be concrete and specific. You don't want a goal like "becoming a better person," because there's no objective way to judge that. It's got to be something like "I'm going to call my mother once a week." Or "I'm going to cut my body mass index to 25." It can't be fudgeable.” WayWantYearsPersonsTwoBodyMotherGoalChanceNumbersSupportCuttingWeekJudgingBecomingMassObjectivesTwo ThingsResolutionConcreteNew YearChances AreBetter PersonSupport YouNew Year's ResolutionsBecoming A Better Person Author:Mehmet Oz
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” InspirationalWarFearPeaceAnxietyPresidentialResolutionInsightfulNegotiationDiplomacyDisputesMissilesDiplomatsSpiritual HealingNegotiatingMediationNever FearInauguralInaugural AddressInaugural SpeechNever CompromiseUs PresidentialDomestic PolicyProfiles In CourageCuban Missile Crisis Author:John F. Kennedy
“Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.” WorldYearsLastsHouseLeadershipApproachRemainsDuesAdministrationResolutionGenocideLast YearSignalsTurkeysObjectionsTurkishArmeniansArmenian Genocide Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."” NeedsWarTodayGivenClearFootballOffersResolutionCombat Author:Steve Almond
“The Trump administration has done some bad stuff in the international realm, picking needless fights with allies like Mexico and Australia, even using some idiotic and intemperate language about Iran, but there was one thing they did about Iran that I agree with. Which is if Iran is testing anti-ballistic missiles, it's in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. And we can't ignore that ... And they did condemn the anti-ballistic missile test. And I think they're right about that.” IfsThinkingDoneFightingLanguageStuffOne ThingSecurityTrumpTestsAgreeInternationalAdministrationRealmsAustraliaIranResolutionAlliesMexicoTestingCouncilViolationMissilesIdioticSecurity CouncilBad Stuff Author:Tim Kaine
“The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.” PeopleWayYearsChildrenEndsMotherLostNationsUnitedRolesAchieveSecurityDecidedIndependenceSouthWesternContributionResolutionSouth AfricaIgnoredUnited NationsCubaMournCubanBeing IgnoredAngolaNamibia Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.” WorldWayLittlesBookDifferentEndsCharacterStoriesProblemActionWaitingLinesNiceMysteryStrangeAdventureDevelopmentDifferent WaysPlusResolutionExplorationSatisfyingVolumePackagesStand AloneCharacter DevelopmentTidyStrange World Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.” GivingEndsPlayStoriesNovelModernMiddleParticularSuspensePlotResolutionDetectivesPacingDetective StoriesModern Novel Author:Robert Cormier
“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.” ReasonHouseResolution Author:John Dean
“I have a resolution that I introduced in February. I think there's enough there that we know about the Kremlin and about Putin to be concerned about whether or not there was collusion.” ThinkingEnoughConcernedResolutionFebruary Author:Maxine Waters
“We got the Iran sanctions done. We got an agreement by Russia to allow us to use Afghanistan to transit supplies for our forces. We got a Security Council resolution on Libya. We got Russia into the WTO to bring in to it a rules-based trading system. All of those things were in our interest. The point is not whether we should work with Russia. The point is whether we should sacrifice other important interests to do so.” ImportantDoneInterestSacrificeSecurityResolutionAfghanistanTrading Author:Philip Gordon
“Try it, folks, try it. Try it for a week without watching cable news. Now, if you're a news consumer and if you are quasi-addicted, then you're gonna have to find other ways of informing yourself, and you can do that. You can inform yourself of the same things you'll see on cable TV. What you will miss is all the incendiary opining on both sides. You'll miss the anger. You'll miss the constant lack of resolution to anything. And most of all you'll miss the frustration.” TryingWeekMissingFrustrationResolution Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.” PeopleThinkingRunningFocusResolutionRunning AwayCounty Author:Andrew Zimmern
“I think the President Donald Trump was quite clear in his statement that he made to the American people that Syria's continued violations of U.N. resolutions and previous agreements that Syria had entered into regarding the Chemical Weapons Accord would no longer be tolerated. I think we have stood by and watched multiple weapon - chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad.” PeopleThinkingPresidentResolutionMultipleSyria Author:Rex W. Tillerson