Resistance Quotes · Page 26

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

— Maya Lin

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so…

— Mindy Kaling

Whenever you leave home and your daily routine, it's way too easy to abandon your regular workouts. That's why resistance bands make…

— Denise Austin

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear…

— Albert Brooks

“I don’t ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many…

— Anonymous

My comfortability is always going favor the grappling side, that's the path of least resistance. But, I don't need necessarily need to…

— Aljamain Sterling

Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a…

— George Herbert

Even though fructose has no immediate effect on blood sugar and insulin, over time -maybe a few years-it is a likely cause…

— Gary Taubes

The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with…

— Noam Chomsky

Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and…

— Roberto Assagioli

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to…

— David Peoples

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and…

— Galeazzo Ciano

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And…

— Charles Baudelaire

To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and…

— Primo Levi

The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by…

— Ludwig von Mises

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb:…

— Steven Pressfield

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny. The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe. The lizard brain…

— Seth Godin

“I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the americans... The…

— Saddam Hussein

What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are…

— Menachem Begin

At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message…

— Esther Perel

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by…

— Wayne White

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these…

— Tim Robbins

The Republican Party's reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump's dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.

— Chris Matthews

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until…

— Patrick Henry

“Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.”

— Steven Pressfield

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

— Anthony Fauci

We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.

— Brandon Webb

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force…

— Elihu Root

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

— John Ruskin

“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we…

— Tom Althouse

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to…

— George Washington

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His…

— Therese of Lisieux

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets…

— Madonna Ciccone

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal…

— Terry Tempest Williams

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche