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Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

- Marilu Henner

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

- David Hare

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

- Dick Cheney

I know how hard it is to lose weight and maintain an active lifestyle. But I didn`t do it alone and others don`t have to either. Staying motivated took a daily commitment to myself and the support from family, friends and experts. Now, through the SUBWAY(R)`s `Fresh Resolutions` support program, I want to help people stick to those resolutions of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle in January and throughout the rest of the year.

- Jared Fogle

I don`t make resolutions. If it`s something I need to do, I do it. I don`t wait until the new year.

- Alice White

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

These constructive actions demonstrate a willingness to accelerate efforts to achieve consensual resolutions to the significant challenges facing Delphi.

- Steve Miller

And I`ve tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we`d pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we`d never tell anyone. So I`ve instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

- Julian Bond

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

- Kofi Annan

the goal of the process will be to focus on accountability, compensation as called for in the resolutions protecting the families and eventually lifting of sanctions.

- James Cunningham

position on one-sided resolutions in the Security Council and General Assembly has been very clear. They are unacceptable unless they take into account the complex security situation on the ground and include a condemnation of terrorist bombings and the groups that perpetrate them.

- James Cunningham

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

- Agost Benard

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq`s money.

- Ahmed Kamal

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.

- Ailton Nascimento

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.

- Alan Stark

As far as Iraq is concerned, let`s not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

- Alan Yates

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I`ve tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

- Alla Trubnikova

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

- Allan Walsh

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions

- Marcel Proust

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

- Eric Zorn

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence

- Marie Edgeworth