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resolutions
«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.»
Author: Eric Zorn
| About:
Honesty,
Resolution
| Keywords:
assessment, cleansing, cycle, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, repentance, resolutions, ritual, Self assessment
«I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also 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»
Author: Helen Fielding
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
abruptly, consume, dieting, extension, good idea, hangover, hangovers, nicotine, rationally, resolutions, smoker, smokers, stroke, technically
«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.»
«Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
involuntary, irregular, overt, resolutions
«New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
annual, paving, regular, resolutions, usual
«It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
| Keywords:
conduce, conduced, conduces, cultivated, intention, resolutions, supporting, voting
«May all have identical resolutions! May all have identical thoughts in their hearts! May the same thought pervades each mind,so that you work in unison!.»
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely
