#resolution

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#beyond #comes #confronted #danger #deceit

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#changes #come #conscience #demands #form

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#come #dying #many #mature #may

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. ↗

— William Whipple

#court #doubt #i #i wonder #law

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not. ↗

— Bob Graham

#against #apply #authority #colleagues #could

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. ↗

— William Hague

#any #clear #forbids #forces #foreign

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#am #american #american administration #american people #any

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#commons #house #looking #march #passed

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. ↗

— Akhenaton

#armed #art #body #employ #furnished

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#away #because #discussion #failed #forum