The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
quote by Victor Hugo
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Last Resort
You're my last resort
When i don't have anyone else to talk to
You're there for me
Yet you're a friend that goes unnoticed
You're my last resort
When i think i'm useless
Wanting to die you reassure me
You're one of my best friends
Yet i don't treat you like one
With that said
I'm truely sorry
You're my last resort
and i'm yours
(10-1-05)
poem by Brandi Young
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by H.L. Mencken
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
If Religion Is The Opium Of The People
for things beyond our explanations
for things beyond our repair
we resort to religion
for all the beauty amidst the ugliness
for all those that we can still justify
we resort to poetry
back to the essence of things
back to awe and wonder
back to the first birth of imagination
i, grab, the power of poetry
i will start with the finest grain of sand
and then your soft hand.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Colin Powell
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Too Much Light
It was a mighty snug resort, that Sydney-side hotel:
A snug resort where fellows dined 'not wisely, but too well';
The boarders all had gone to bed, and other men departed,
When Pat suggested to his pal 'twas nearly time they started.
They drifted to the closing bar, and asked the sleepy waiter
For two cigars,to light 'em home before the hour grew later;
Pat lit his; while his chum exclaimed, 'Ole chappie, gimme light!
I don't know how you're feeling, but I'm very, very tight!'
... Tis very hard to get a light'-he lurched against the bar,
And most appealingly remarked 'Which is the right cigar?
'Tis difficult to fix it; you guess, p'r'aps, what I mean;
I know you're only smoking one, but I can see fifteen!'
poem by Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
quote by Thomas J. Watson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Plausible
we resort to something plausible
to explain
our inner struggles
a pain that seems
endless
recurring
resting only on some
corners
for a while
we resort to something easy
to explain
our misery
and soon enough
we exhaust
everything plausible
we look
for openings to find
another entrance
of belief
a cool resting place
of faith
gaining a little insight
of confidences
some tell us
to get an anchor
i try this and that
only to find
myself again floatin
like a bouy
feeling so light
like a styrofoam
my nature is to float
rebelling anything
that sinks
to the bottom
wanting to see
the sun
and thus experience
this
blindness
God must be
so forgiving
I am still alive
and always
searching
questioning
a curious child
whose curiosity
may kill a cat
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
A Love For All Seasons
There's no truth in the rumour
That's all I want to say
There's no room for manoevre
Make sure that it stays
A love for all seasons
October was a drag
Damn it all
You and I were fools
Overcast and sad
Winter blues
Allowing us to cool
When it's grey I know all I want to do
Resort to make-believe
There's no truth in the rumour
That's all I want to say
There's no room for manoevre
Make sure that it stays
A love for all seasons
January comes
Steely blue
Nothing seems to rhyme
With all the noise of spring
Passion wakes
Cos' we hear summertime
When it's grey I know all I want to do
Resort to make-believe
There's no truth in the rumour
That's all I want to say
There's no room for manoevre
so Make sure that it stays
A love for all seasons...
October comes around
As it does
But this time we're prepared
You and I can go
To love land
There's a sunset to be shared
When it's grey I know all I want to do
Resort to make-believe...
There's no truth in the rumour
That's all I want to say
There's no room for manoevre
So Make sure that it stays
There's no truth in the rumour
That's all I want to say
There's no room for manoevre
So Make sure that it stays
A love for all seasons
yeah, a love for all seasons
I said it
January, February, March April,
May, June July,
I love you
August, September,October, November,
I love you, yes i will..
oh cheers
yeah octuber was a fire
and in to 9:00 to 3:00 I love you
both
song performed by by Right Said Fred
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Death Must Be Dying Too....
because you are faraway
i resort to imagining you,
it must be bizarre looking
at a woman of stone with the head of
an egg
eyes made of wood
do not blink hands as cold as
tin can in frosty
winter
your color is darker than
violet
i try smelling
you like a ripe sour sop
there is this
prevailing smell of
Merthiolate
someone is bleeding right here
but no one is
asking for help
now you are so near and real
death is dying still
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
quote by Roger Mahony
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
quote by Harold H. Greene
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
quote by Oscar Wilde
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
quote by Jerry Brown
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Innocent People
Innocent people
were slained
by someone who
was crazy and who
was also to blame and
his parents must
be ashamed
he was a loner
that's what they
say nobody
talked to him
that's why he went
crazy 32 lives were
taken including his
own amongst them 3
great teachers It's
crazy today that
we have to resort to so much
violence one day
we will meet these people again but
until then Virginia Tech has angels
watching over them.
poem by Perry Williams
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.
quote by Kristen Johnston
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
quote by Kurt Herbert Alder
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
quote by Wally Amos
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!