We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip. — Paulo Coelho 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
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
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Disney Resort and World and Compound, a place where your dreams really do come true, if you dream about having people wearing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
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
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense — David Thorne Copy Share Image
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
