Top 548 Resort Quotes & Sayings

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it is expedient. Then they resort to miracles. But resorting to miracles is not offering an explanation: it is asserting that no real explanation exists. Whenever creationists resort to miracles, they are admitting that their system cannot account for the facts of nature; it cannot explain the world.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

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

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.

The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

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.'

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

My favourite hotel is the Hilton Hawaiian Village beach resort in Honolulu.

When in doubt, resort to animation.

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the 'New York Times' trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.

I used to watch 'Private Resort' and laugh all the time.

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

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.

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

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

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

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

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

I'm a logical woman and won't resort to washing dirty linen in public.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

Every winter my wife and I take a week off and go to a resort in Florida.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

I'd love to rent a private villa in a resort complex with a kids' club.

In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

I like publicity, but don't resort to cheap tricks.

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

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Impeachment is our system's last resort for someone who treats himself or herself as above the law, the most relevant thing is whether this president, by his recent course of action, on top of his violations of the foreign corruption or emoluments clause, this president has shone that he cannot be trusted to remain within the law and our constitution's last resort for situations of that kind is to get the person out of office.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.