For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to…

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, &…

— Virginia Woolf

“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to…

— Angie Thomas

I couldn't resist the idea of doing 'Coronation Street.'

— Nigel Havers

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