We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I hate staying in resorts. When I go on holiday, I like to stay in crappy places with great surf. — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense — David Thorne Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion,… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I am very good at finding snow when there's very little snow. From a day in, day out perspective, I'm fine. I… — Jeremy Jones Copy Share Image
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I think when you go skiing you have to buy into the après, so it has to be lively for me. There… — Mike Tindall Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
