#resolution

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. ↗

— James Lafferty

#good #good workout #happy #healthy #keep

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

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. ↗

— Sophocles

#makes #men #nothing #pledge #reflection

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#conflict #entitlement #kids #ownership #parenting

June: halfway towards the reiteration of a delusion. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #new-years-resolution #funny

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

Good people left me breathless and wondering. How had they got that way? How good were they, anyway? How would it feel to be good? Then I hit middle age and suddenly I wanted to be a better person and to know that I was living a good life. ↗

— Judith O'Reilly

#humour #inspirational #middle-age #resolution #age