To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd…

“I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.”

— Malcolm Lowry

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..

— Anonymous

“Ten or fifteen years later, a large gap had opened between those who had resisted temptation and those who had not. The resisters had…

— Daniel Kahneman

“There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.”

— Erin Mccarthy

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have…

— J. G. Ballard

Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn't…

— Jeff Bridges

“Thus saying, I turned my full attention to the lock. Like a proper maiden, it resisted for a token moment. But, upon further adept…

— Gabrielle Harbowy

“to run over the check on her. He’d resisted”

— Vannetta Chapman

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I…

— Orson Scott Card

“I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him…

— Orson Scott Card

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

— Graham Hancock

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

— Abigail Johnson

“He knows that had he been a young man himself he would not have stopped at Peshawar: he doesn’t know how he would have…

— Nadeem Aslam

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer