#solutions

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it. ↗

— John Oldham

#going #i #i am #past #quit

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#been #decade #defiance #every #gulf

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#doing #going #here #i #involve

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#both #convenient #dispense #doubt #equally

I don't want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life. ↗

— Shūsaku Endō

#resolutions #death

Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chances of survival. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#goals #habits #resolutions #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#imagination #issues #necessity #resolve #solutions

Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting! ↗

— Rick Yancey

#solutions #intelligence

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fear #life #new-year-s-resolutions #life

To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering mirages called 'philosophical systems'; with bewitching deceptive power they show the solution of all enigmas and the freshest draught of the true water of life to be near at hand; his heart rejoices, and it seems to the weary traveller that his lips already touch the goal of all the perseverance and sorrows of the scientific life... Other natures again, may well grow exceedingly ill-humoured and curse the salty taste which these apparitions leave behind in the mouth and from which arises a raging thirst – without one having been brought so much as a step nearer to any kind of spring. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#enigma #goals #knowledge #mirages #science