All things resist destruction, according to their…

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

— Herbert M. Shelton

... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised,…

— Dorothy Allison

“It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.”

— Thomas à Kempis

I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

“There are things to be done. Resist retreat as a matter of strategy and principle. And provide the means to continue our dominant role…

— Charles Krauthammer

We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

— Saddam Hussein

“It was more than any mortal man could resist, so he let go.”

— Kit Rocha

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

— Robin Sharma

“People tend to resist a change into something new and different. But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.”

— Toba Beta

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

— Dan Millman

“Life is a flow which we can either resist or go with it gracefully.”

— Tonmoy Acharjee

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

— Giorgio Napolitano

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind…

— Rumaan Alam