Resorted Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were…
— Giacomo Casanova
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The…
— Walter Prescott Webb
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There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot…
— Ayn Rand
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Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing…
— Mila Kunis
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I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is…
— John Brown
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French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use…
— Peter Medawar
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of…
— Mark E. Petersen
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain…
— Ted Dekker
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least…
— Benjamin Tucker
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It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there…
— Priscilla Presley
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Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he…
— Christopher Paolini
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It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent…
— N.K. Jemisin
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Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of…
— Walter Scott
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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.
— Red Faber
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Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme…
— Loretta Lynch
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Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.
— James Larkin
Who Wrote These Resorted Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Resorted Quotes as follows: