Top 54 My Last Resort Quotes

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

Will Rogers

My Last Resort Quotes #1493
#2. Politics is the last resort of scoundrels.

Blase Bonpane

My Last Resort Quotes #22279
#3. Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?

John Knowles

My Last Resort Quotes #55597
#4. Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.

Joshua Ferris

My Last Resort Quotes #71397
#5. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Cornel West

My Last Resort Quotes #81683
#6. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

Jonas Gahr Store

My Last Resort Quotes #83441
#7. In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.

Hal Rothman

My Last Resort Quotes #86368
#8. Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

My Last Resort Quotes #96423
#9. Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort

Kay Redfield Jamison

My Last Resort Quotes #97062
#10. The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.

Johann Lamont

My Last Resort Quotes #111467
#11. Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician.

Peter F. Hamilton

My Last Resort Quotes #114977
#12. You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.

Charlie Sheen

My Last Resort Quotes #126225
#13. 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

My Last Resort Quotes #150199
#14. I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

Asne Seierstad

My Last Resort Quotes #160595
#15. In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

Herbert Butterfield

My Last Resort Quotes #175381
#16. Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.

Eugene O'Neill

My Last Resort Quotes #187656
#17. 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

My Last Resort Quotes #194335
#18. Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My Last Resort Quotes #195356
#19. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Richard Bach

My Last Resort Quotes #202942
#20. I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

My Last Resort Quotes #214546
#21. Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

Tamora Pierce

My Last Resort Quotes #214991
#22. If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alan Dershowitz

My Last Resort Quotes #221881
#23. Text him and see what he's doing later.
Prob hanging out around the house.
Good. So he doesn't intend on going anywhere.
Why? Am I planning on drugging and kidnapping him?
We'll use that as a last resort.

Em Wolf

My Last Resort Quotes #231806
#24. There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives.

Michael Josephson

My Last Resort Quotes #236869
#25. As the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established

David McCullough

My Last Resort Quotes #270392
#26. You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

Mario Savio

My Last Resort Quotes #289614
#27. The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Gerald Celente

My Last Resort Quotes #290995
#28. Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)

Virginia Woolf

My Last Resort Quotes #296990
#29. I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

Ronald Reagan

My Last Resort Quotes #297091
#30. This is my last resort suffocation no breathing don't give a f**k if I cut my arm bleeding this is my last resort ...

Papa Roach

My Last Resort Quotes #300015
#31. 'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

Jessy Schram

My Last Resort Quotes #300927
#32. 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

My Last Resort Quotes #314460
#33. Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.

Rupert Murdoch

My Last Resort Quotes #318210
#34. First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Paul Klee

My Last Resort Quotes #340857
#35. In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Hans Kung

My Last Resort Quotes #350059
#36. 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 Henry Dawson

My Last Resort Quotes #374728
#37. Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

Richard M. Nixon

My Last Resort Quotes #387380
#38. Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

Louis MacNeice

My Last Resort Quotes #402185
#39. The United States forgot - if it ever knew - the supreme virtue of an enlightened realpolitik, which is to keep one's powder dry, intervene militarily as a last resort (rather than a first), and maintain industrial and fiscal strength at home.

Mike Lofgren

My Last Resort Quotes #429674
#40. War should always be the absolute last resort.

Joe Biden

My Last Resort Quotes #437265
#41. The lowest form of war is To attack Cities. Siege warfare Is a last resort ... The Skillful Strategist Defeats the enemy Without doing battle, Captures the city Without laying siege, Overthrows the enemy state Without protracted war.34

Henry Kissinger

My Last Resort Quotes #454022
#42. All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

Aldous Huxley

My Last Resort Quotes #455240
#43. See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

My Last Resort Quotes #479454
#44. All images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in a last resort, "It is not high. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?" CS Lewis

Philip Zaleski

My Last Resort Quotes #496076
#45. The inherent dialectic of desire itself had in way already shown me this; for all images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in the last resort, It is not I. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?

C.S. Lewis

My Last Resort Quotes #505333
#46. Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

Antony C. Sutton

My Last Resort Quotes #514175
#47. From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Nelson Mandela

My Last Resort Quotes #561627
#48. Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

Robert Plant

My Last Resort Quotes #587717
#49. My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.

Jessy Schram

My Last Resort Quotes #650999
#50. When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

David Bowie

My Last Resort Quotes #688314
#51. Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Arthur Ashe

My Last Resort Quotes #1567074
#52. My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Samantha Power

My Last Resort Quotes #1587361
#53. Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government. It falls upon the people, in the last resort, to stand against injustice no matter where it occurs.

Ron Paul

My Last Resort Quotes #1664590
#54. A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk ...
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

Sylvia Plath

My Last Resort Quotes #1725752

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top