“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”
Agatha Christie book Death Comes as the End
(1945)
Source: Death Comes as the End
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order exploring the adverse impacts of military expenditures on the realization of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx. <br class="br">2015, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
“The mouth of hell is full of good resolutions.”
Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer
La bocca dell'Inferno e piena di buone volontà.
Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 492.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 339.
“Never tell your resolution beforehand.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Wisdom.
Table Talk (1689)
Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies
Ibid.
"Palestinians and Jewish History: Recognition or Submission?"
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
187
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.”
Arlen Specter (1930–2012) American politician; former United States Senator from Pennsylvania
In a hearing on Congress's War Powers (January 30, 2007).