One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist…

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

— Victor Hugo

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this…

— King Albert II

“Martian invasion: sure, the Army understands what it needs to do, if not necessarily how to go about it. Religious apocalypses involving the Four…

— Charles Stross

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty.…

— Victor Hugo

“A stone resists the wind, no matter how small it is.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

— Rem Koolhaas

“When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

— Ovid

“The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The truth resists simplicity.”

— John Green

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists…

— John Calvin

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal