Quotes having the keyword Resort
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
by King Hussein I (Statesman, Jordanian , born in 1935) keywords: beauty, dotted, empires, every, great, haunting, inch, jordan, last, love, once, resort, ruins, sense, strange, timelessness, tomorrow, world , yesterday I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
by Carl Jung (Psychologist, Swiss , born in 1875) keywords: among, been, finding, half, hundreds, last, life, many, outlook, over, patients, problem, religious, resort, say, second, those, treated , whose Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
by John Agyekum Kufuor (Statesman, Ghanaian , born in 1938) keywords: again, dubious, foreign, get, lands, live, living, make, means, never, resort, should , simply I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
by Roger Mahony (Clergyman, American , born in 1936) keywords: absolute, believe, church, depriving, last, law, out, particularly, penal, personally, resort, sacraments, sanctions , sets 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.
by H. L. Mencken (Writer, American , born in 1880) topics: Religion keywords: avoid, catholic, chemistry, forbidden, lawful, mathematics, now, physics, pregnancy, quite, resort, she, still, though , woman 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.
by Michael Musto (Writer, American , born in 1955) keywords: alternative, been, bribery, deception, exhausted, few, final, idea, last, nothing, only, options, resort, telling, threat, truth, up, very, whole , years Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
by Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosopher, German , born in 1970) keywords: against, come, concerning, consideration, into, judgments, last, life, never, only, possess, resort, stupidities, such, symptoms, themselves, true , value Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
by P. J. O'Rourke (Comedian, American , born in 1947) keywords: done, endless, foreigners, get, god, infinite, last, lousy, mercy, paltry, politics, resort, rights, their, things, way , wrongs We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
by John Perkins (Economist) keywords: actually, been, built, comes, done, empire, history, ii, instances, iraq, largest, last, little, might, military, only, over, rare, resort, since, very, war, where, world , years War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
by Colin Powell (Statesman, American , born in 1937) keywords: go, last, our, politics, purpose, resort, should, support, understand , war But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
by Buddy Rich (Musician, American , born in 1917) keywords: actually, because, fire, flashing, lights, need, resort, saying, together, trick , turntables The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
by Donald Rumsfeld (Politician, American , born in 1932) keywords: ask, better, federal, first, government, governments, handled, last, local, organizations, potential, privately, program, resort, responsibility, should, state, truly, voluntary , whether As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
by Arlen Specter (Politician, American , born in 1930) keywords: amendment, constitution, constitutional, doctrine, inadequate, last, matter, measures, other, proved, resort, should, sound , traditional What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (Diplomat, French , born in 1754) keywords: clever, commit, crime, ever, last, man, needed, political , resort When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: cannot, drawn, effectively, experiences, hatred, however, lesson, lies, life, only, oppose, ourselves, own, path, recall, resort, speak, such , violence All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
by Thomas J. Watson (Scientist, American , born in 1874) keywords: because, could, devices, easily, hard, men, often, only, order, problems, resort, settled, sorts, such, think, thinking, trouble, very, were, willing, work , world
