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“He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.”

Men Faces Found Names Fear Hero Needed Band Towns Calm Certainty Resolve Coward Jackals

Author:Walter Hill

“It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.”

Able Difficult Sin Cases Sorrow Resolve Affected Remorse

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.”

World Firsts Philosophy Science Causes Natural Effects Arguing Resolve Mechanism Hypothesis Natural Philosophy Feigning

Book:Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia

Source: Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia

“The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.”

Order Lessons Conflict Weakness Chaos Resolve Invites Vacillation

Author:Rick Perry

“All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.”

Wells Next Sunday Resolve Complaints Next Day Remarks Here And There

Author:Saadi

“The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.”

Men Feels Heart Matter Smart Vices Resolve

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books

“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.”

Two Adventure Ought Perceive Resolve Resolution Prompts

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.”

People Ifs Trying Judging Politician Bother Hypocrisy Priests Resolve Psychiatrist Neurosis Satirist

Author:Federico Fellini

“It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.”

School Childhood Confusion Resolve Repression

Book:Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

“Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.”

Long Hard Done Film Hard Work Directors Determination Resolve Glamour Premieres Film Directors

Author:D. W. Griffith

“Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.”

Men Humans Self Dies Ideals Lays Brave Slave Noble Mortals Live Life Human Life Self Respect Resolve Brave Man Enriching Disgraceful

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.”

Helping Action Space Effort Appreciate International Congress Russia Stations Resolve Partnership Restriction Astronaut Nasa International Space Station

Author:Michael D. Griffin

“So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.”

States Difficult United United States Issues Materials Weapons Evidence Nuclear Significant Iran Resolve Quantity Nuclear Weapons

Author:Joseph Cirincione

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.”

World Values Security Involved Promise Threat International Ships Around The World Resolve Cooperation Navy Aircraft Demonstrating Tactical Maritime

Author:John C. Stennis

“Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.”

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.”

“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.”

God Fear Resolve Faith In God Indomitable Indomitable Will

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.”

Believe Christian Jesus I Believe Christ Disease Weakness Jesus Christ Difficulty I Believe In Heal Remove Resolve

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.”

Writing Believe Humans May Persons Made Easy Secret Discovery Method Resolve Investigation Ingenuity Epiphany Easy Things Ciphers

Book:Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

“The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

Force Water Security Citizens Essentials Diversity Fellows International Active Defense Command Resolve Reserves Flexibility Navigate Armed Forces Detente

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.”

Way Long Together Women Situation Solutions Tough Patient Calm Gentle Resolve Knitting It Is What It Is Stay Calm Tough Situations

Author:Amy Dickinson

“You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.”

Should Women Accepting Prepared Resolve Approval Disapproval

Author:Judith Martin

“In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.”

Needs Mind Purpose Order Loses Teacher Intention Resolve Transfers Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favorable, in the highest degree, to society. In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage.”

Men Seems Law Individual Nations Cases Duty Habit Degrees Highest Connected Obedience Resolve Customs Inclination Beneficial

Book:The Natural and Civil History of Vermont

Source: The Natural and Civil History of Vermont

“Give three hundred seconds to your dream. Take a tiny step with big integrity. It takes a step to break to break into a run. The result at hand doesn't matter. The resolve does. Show up for your love. Showing up always shines.”

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.”

Source: A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.

“Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.”

Mean Jobs Purpose Resolve

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.”

Thinking Dream Hope Rooms Plans Planning Glorious Parks Finding Yourself Resolve Founders National Parks

Book:Your National Parks With Detailed Information for Tourists

Source: Your National Parks With Detailed Information for Tourists

“Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?”

Mind Problem Psychological Resolve Psychological Problems

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source: Systematic Theology

“I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try to memorize them. I’m afraid of getting lost; no, I’m afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.”

Trying Looks I Can Lost My Own Cities Library Maps Resolve Bus Venture Sinking Subway Getting Lost Quicksand

Author:Deborah Feldman

“There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.”

People World Want Giving Humans Different Problem Care Earth Evil Names Sound Leader Dying Calling Thirds Tiny Resolve Starvation Third World Different Worlds People Dying

Author:Craig Stone

“No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.”

Should School Resolve Formulas Overboard Impressionism

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.”

“Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.”

Hands Today Tomorrow One Day Resolve Better Tomorrow

Author:Catherine McAuley

“The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.”

Knows Today Tomorrow Lessons Be Good Practicals Resolve Simplest Better Tomorrow

Author:Catherine McAuley

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

Happiness Attitude Morning Conditions Self Help Circumstances Happy Get Up Positive Attitude Resolve Happy Life Being Happy Conditioning Life Happiness Joy And Happiness Joy Happiness Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Ralph Waldo Trine

“The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.”

“The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.”

“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”

“A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.”

Men Real Pain Life Is Suffering Bases Gender Real Life Devotion Resolve

Author:Billy Cannon

“A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.”

Eye Resolve Betray

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if we follow Christ we need have no fear. So let us leave the old year with gratitude to God for its mercies, and with penitence for its failures and sins; and let us enter the new year with earnest resolve in Christ's name to make it the holiest and most beautiful year we have ever lived.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Beautiful Names Christ Sin Gratitude Mercy Resolve New Year Earnest No Fear Have No Fear Old Year Penitence Gratitude To God

Author:J.R. Miller

“A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”

Heart Hands Action Resolve Mischief

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.”

Character Feelings Form Effects Objects Speech Complexes Resolve Peculiar Propriety

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?”

Years Has Beens Light Heaven Felt Loses Half Fruit Disappointment Deeds Insight Believer Resolve Sparks Creeds Vague New Beginnings Casual Morrow Wanderers

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.”

Needs Humans May Made Helping Social My Own Human Beings Party Ready My Friends Satisfaction Active Resolve

Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience

“There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.”