Resistance Quotes · Page 30

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance…

— Dean Spade

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity -…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

— Elissa Slotkin

It depends on where I'm going, but a small item I usually take is a resistance band for resistance training like push-ups…

— Uriah Hall

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

— Henry Paulson

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and…

— Eve Ensler

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“His eyes darkened, and I realized he saw my resistance as a challenge. “Constantijin, no---” “I won’t”

— Marian Tee

Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious…

— Eckhart Tolle

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And…

— Charles Baudelaire

To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In…

— Richard Benjamin

I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the…

— Bill Nighy

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team…

— John C. Maxwell

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You…

— Shakti Gawain

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic…

— Dalai Lama

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she…

— Ayn Rand

It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against…

— George Q. Cannon

But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which…

— Noah Webster

“The less I know – the more the world opens up, wide and waiting. This is how I have come to understand…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas…

— Alfred Jodl

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging…

— Horace Mann

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very…

— Ani DiFranco

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

— Deborah Bull

“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which…

— Tom Althouse

The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate…

— Yi Mun-yol

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was…

— Rose Wilder Lane

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.

— Muqtada al Sadr

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

— Hans Selye

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains…

— Jon Landau

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

— Emma Goldman

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

— Dan Millman

Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild…

— Ho Chi Minh

“Asking yourself a question, that’s how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. —REMCO CAMPERT May”

— Kristin Hannah

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

— Martin Heidegger

“Inasmuch as resistance is a choice to descend into hell, one musn't complain about the darkness.”

— Xiaobo Liu

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself.…

— Hal Holbrook