Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by…

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

— Oscar Wilde

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his…

— Vincent Van Gogh

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

— Livy

“Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.”

— H.L. Mencken

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

— Shams Tabrizi

The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after…

— Rajneesh

“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.”

— Jami Attenberg

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence…

— Lysander Spooner

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

— Lauren Oliver

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or…

— Ibn Ata Allah

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

— Diane von Furstenberg

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was…

— Molly Antopol

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

— Leigh Newman

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of…

— Farnaz Fassihi

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…

— Milton Mayer