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Make prayer a top priority rather than a last resort. — Mary Jane Remole

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. — Paul Johnson

Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us. — George W. Bush

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

Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate — Margaret Atwood

the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 — Niall Ferguson

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

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

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same. — Brian K. Vaughan

'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation. — Jessy Schram

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 basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. — Samantha Power

Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is about being optimistic and living life in despair is not the last resort of every problem — Saleemdurrani

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

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

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

Providence, where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air."
From "The Last Resort" by Don Henley/Glen Fry, recorded by the Eagles — J.J. Partridge

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

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

War should always be the absolute last resort. — Joe Biden

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?
They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.' — Alan Dershowitz

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him. — C.S. Lewis

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

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. — George Osborne

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire. — Larry Correia

War creates its own intensity of hatred ... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. — Wesley Clark

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

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort. — Andrew Ashling

Last Resort friends are for getting from, not giving to. — J.M. Richards

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. — David Bowie

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. — Roy Barnes

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. — Naguib Mahfouz

God should always be our first thought, not our last resort. — Kate McGahan

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

Politics is the last resort of scoundrels. — Blase Bonpane

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

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

I'm not going to lie: there are no good options here. — Jackson Lanzing

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort! — J.K. Rowling

A diamond, is a woman's last resort to love. — Anthony Liccione

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed. — Julia Hill

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself? — John Knowles

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. — Colin Powell

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all. — Hans Kung

It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly. — William Landay

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Communism was not defeated by any one individual or even a combination of individuals. In the last resort communism defeated itself. — Michael Dobbs

You want a man who wants to be with you above everybody. Not as a last resort. — Chrissie Manby

Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis

Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation. — Bria Guishard

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J.G. Ballard

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. — Jean Genet

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

The government is becoming the family of last resort. — Jerry Brown

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis

I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort. — Neil Gaiman

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. — Albert Einstein

used these personally. I would not recommend ordering off Amazon except as a last resort (ie. If you have a gift — Dustin Yarc