Resist Quotes
889 quotes by 698 authors
-
While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that would…
— Unknown Author
-
How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
-
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind…
— Barbara Kruger
-
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's…
— Jack Nicholson
-
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
— Keith Richards
-
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America.…
— Danny Glover
-
Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if…
— D. Todd Christofferson
-
Without love you can only resist, without feeling you can't exist.
— Melissa Ferrick
-
A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her…
— Julie B. Beck
-
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
— Ryan Holiday
-
One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's…
— Katrina Kenison
-
No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of Palestinian resistance, it…
— Remi Kanazi
-
Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate…
— Jennifer Siebel Newsom
-
I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way.…
— Kenneth Branagh
-
Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families…
— Tom DeLay
-
If you insist, how can I resist?
— Toni Gonzaga
-
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
— Edward Abbey
-
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and…
— Samuel Adams
-
And never resist a perfect moment.
— Terry Pratchett
-
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle…
— Allan Bloom
Who Wrote These Resist Quotes
698 authors contributed a total of 889 Resist Quotes, led by these top contributors: