Resorts Quotes

• It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Uplifting, Christian, Prayer

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• This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

  James Baker

  Hype, President, Trying

  "36 Days that Gripped the Nation" by CNN, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2001.

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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Quotes That Help You Survive". Book by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor, 2006.

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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mistake, Warrior

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 14, 2010

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• There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Inspirational, Success, Freedom

  Quoted in Time magazine, December 8, 1930.

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• Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Two, World

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• Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

  Malcolm X

  Liberty, Way, Justified

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 45), 2013.

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• I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

  Kristen Johnston

  Strong, Violence, Persons

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• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

  Michael Musto

  Years, Ideas, Deception

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Politics

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• Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

  Martin Filler

  War, Machines, World

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• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Errors, Lasts

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

  Will Self

  Phones, Texting, Neglect

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

  Steven Seagal

  Violence, Persons

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Stupidity, Lasts

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• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

  David Bowie

  Lasts, Drag, Stuck

  The FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Country, Important, Storm

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

  Christopher Dawson

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Fall

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.120, CUA Press

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• Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not? (Kyrian) Because I am not some scared little Daimon to run cringing from you. I am your worst nightmare. (Desiderius) Must you resort to cliches? C'mon, Desidisastrous, couldn't you think of anything more original than that B-movie dialogue staple? (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.

  Pat Robertson

  Healthy, Etcetera, Republic

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• I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

  David Duchovny

  Beautiful, Three, World

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Interview - THE X-FILES: I Want to Believe". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2008.

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• As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

  Arlen Specter

  Sound, Doctrine, Matter

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• I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Light, Car, Steps

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Aug 24, 2012

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• The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Law

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Parent

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