#resolute

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ↗

— Plutarch

#cause #consists #courage #fear #just

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#dare #electronic #electronic media #eventual #himself

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#i #i am #left #marxist #myself

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#always #away #be happy #drama #dull

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#america #assured #best #chance #come

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#bit #fact #forwards #i #like

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#big enough #came #communism #conscious #enough

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#am #believe #claim #echoes #i

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#case #exercise #going #help #physical