Resolve

Famous quotes containing the word resolve:

    “There’s no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn’t invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II½. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it’s possible.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “...if we would be and do all that as a rational being we should desire, we must resolve to govern ourselves; we must seek diversity of interests; dread to be without an object and without mental occupation; and try to balance work for the body and work for the mind.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    “When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)