Resorts Quotes

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

  

  Muqtada al Sadr
  • Burned
  • Demonstration
  • Resorts

• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Interpretation
  • Ambiguity

• 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
  • God
  • Pray
  • God Will

• Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Men
  • Military
  • Careers

• A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Satyagrahi
  • Resorts

• 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
  • Deception
  • Alternatives
  • Exhausted

• I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Danger
  • Resorts
  • Avalanches

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

  

  Mickey Kaus
  • People
  • Turns
  • Resorts

• When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Imagination
  • Violence
  • Profound

• Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spiritual
  • Drug
  • Periods