...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One. — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side. — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe. — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and… — Robert Townsend Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if… — Sid Gillman Copy Share Image
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its… — Piers Morgan 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
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
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
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
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
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
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image