When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment.… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in… — Phil Taylor Copy Share Image
Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason,… — Antony C. Sutton Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and… — Charles Lever Copy Share Image
Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are… — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said 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
It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
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
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump… — Craig Cook Copy Share Image
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to resort to hating [Pablo Escobar] when all he gave you his entire life was love and all the… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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