#resolve

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together. ↗

— Harry Reid

#america #barack #barack obama #been #difficult

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans. ↗

— Tabare Vazquez

#problems #resolved #will

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance? ↗

— Denis Kearney

#assistance #california #chinese #make #may

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. ↗

— Stephen King

#become #big #big fan #bother #fan

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#dalai #dalai lama #destruction #died #had

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#central #designation #i #i believe #idaho

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#execute #hand #head #heart #resolve

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#been #difficulties #future #mathematics #mistakes