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

  Kristen Johnston

  Strong, Violence, Persons

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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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• You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.

  George Clooney

  Suicide, Revenge, War

  "Good Night and Good Luck". www.abc.net.au. December 9, 2005.

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

  Joseph Story

  Powerful, Army, Sacrifice

  Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

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• Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

  John Kufuor

  Mean, Land, Dubious

  John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”

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• On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

  Polybius

  Events, Causes, Should

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• I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as
  the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these
  require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are
  just friends and brave enemies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Rights, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.205, Algora Publishing

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• Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

  Pierre Charron

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Pain, Men, Doe

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Perspective, Ornaments, Defense

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• It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Sacrifice, Order, Able

  "V.I. Lenin Selected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 10, (p. 95), 1938.

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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• Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Power, Civilization, Effort

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• Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Lasts, Violence

  J. G. Ballard (2001). “The complete short stories”, Fourth Estate

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• When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Fall, Frustration

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• You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

  Bob Newhart

  Clean, Shock, Shows

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• I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

  Ned Beauman

  Book, Writing, Cat

  "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Cutting, Benefits, Want

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