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. H. L. Mencken
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. Chester A. Arthur
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. Don DeLillo
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination. Sherman Alexie
Even when fire has done its very worst, one still has to resort to it. Nigerian Proverb