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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. -- Franz Grillparzer
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. -- Baltasar Gracian
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent. -- Anthony Zinni
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. -- Samuel Johnson
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. -- Octavio Paz
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. -- Philip Stanhope
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. -- Lord Byron
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. -- Pope Pius XII
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. -- Therese of Lisieux
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me -- Hunter S. Thompson
We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without. -- Dalai Lama
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit. -- David Hume
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies. -- Charles Baudelaire
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic. -- Tim Noakes
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress. -- June Jordan
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity. -- Saint Basil
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government. -- Alexander Hamilton
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. -- Alberto Manguel
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. -- Sam Harris
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end... -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember. -- Alice Miller
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire -- Nelson Mandela
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands. -- Rebecca Solnit
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves; confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of th free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabe. -- Thomas Sankara
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable. -- Tennessee Williams
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. -- Philip Stanhope
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. -- Graham Joyce
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism. -- Manmohan Singh
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority. -- James Fenimore Cooper
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times. -- Thomas Aquinas
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. -- Octavio Paz
Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary. -- E. Howard Hunt
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage. -- Dale T. Mortensen
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. -- Robert Smith
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor. -- Shane Black
Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley? -- Lisa Edelstein
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth of the Pill,' I have no other recourse, since his narrative is full of larger-than-life characters sharply limned and embarked on fascinating doings, their story told in sprightly visual fashion. -- Paul Di Filippo
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike. -- John O. Brennan
What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy? -- Trey Gowdy
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. -- Philip Stanhope
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence. -- Leon Trotsky
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. -- Kate Morton
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. -- Marshall McLuhan
We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement. -- Deepak Chopra
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. -- Khaled Hosseini
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. -- Eugene Wigner
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. -- Naomi Wolf
We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. -- Pierre Bonnard
People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out. -- Russell Simmons
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking. -- Jean-Philippe Rameau
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties. -- John F. Kennedy
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma. -- Hendrik Willem van Loon
It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood. -- Wally Olins
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred. -- Seneca the Younger
In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end. -- Arthur William Galston
There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved. -- Alphonsus Liguori
The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires. -- René Girard
There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. -- Bridget of Sweden
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive? -- Judith Butler
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION. -- Marcus Garvey
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations. -- Thomas a Kempis
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world. -- Benton MacKaye
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity. -- Francois Fenelon
War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal. -- Che Guevara
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra." -- Augustin Louis Cauchy
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra. -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter. -- Mors Kochanski
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. -- Andre Malraux
Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway... -- Christopher Paolini
Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface. -- George Julius Poulett Scrope

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