Resorts Quotes - Page 13

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

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Imagination, Stories, Lasts

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• Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, Men, Elude Us

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• Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

  J. K. Rowling

  Doe, Balls, Lasts

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

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Bigs, Big Business

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• O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Drama, Character

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.202, Vintage

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• As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

  Tom Robbins

  Military, Believe, Adventure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.

  Lora Leigh

  Two, Ego, Males

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• Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Beautiful, Ocean, Turtles

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• ...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

  Arthur Ashe

  Library, Lasts, Hours

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• Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

  Chuck Klosterman

  White, Tennis, House

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.

  Steven Galloway

  Numbers, Lasts, Currency

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• Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Pride, Sarcasm

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• There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools at our disposal, not just military force, which should be used as a last resort, but our diplomacy, our development aid, law enforcement, sharing of intelligence in a much more open and cooperative way. We can bring people together, but it cannot be an American fight.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Law, People

  "Paris Attacks: Hillary Clinton Grilled About ISIS at CBS Debate" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations.

  Mona Charen

  Night, Race, Wings

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• Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Cutting, People

  'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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• I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

  Stephen King

  Beach, Wife, Missing

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

  Sean Connery

  Violence, Lost, Ifs

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• I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

  Anne Lamott

  Beach, Doors, Car

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.6, Penguin

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• What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Men, Political

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Politics, Reason

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.47, Modern Library

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

  Victor Hugo

  Kings, People, Paving The Way

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• A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Warrior, Light, Opponents

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• 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.

  George H. W. Bush

  Opponents, Lasts, Lips

  1988 Accepting the Republican presidential nomination, 19 Aug.

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• [In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, War, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Justice, Mistress

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.39, Penguin

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