#resolutions

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#consume #day #dieting #ease #eat

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#cannot #cap #council #effect #general

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

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#including #iraq #like #resolutions #un

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

Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things ↗

— Helen Fielding

#self-improvement #equality

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ↗

— David Hare

#else #indicate #like #little #mercury

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— Dean Inge

#favor #make #only #opinion #pass

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#favor #opinion #pass #remains #resolutions