Resist Quotes

889 Resist quotes by 698 unique authors

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such… — Elizabeth Grosz
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. — Max Barry
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult… — Elizabeth Lesser
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change — Elizabeth Lesser
I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I… — Cassandra Danz
Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist. — Mark Sisson
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it.… — Elizabeth Lesser
The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations… — Robert S. de Ropp
I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path. — Daniel Libeskind
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. — Margaret Atwood
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to… — Salman Rushdie
What you resist persist. — Carl Jung
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true… — Michel de Montaigne
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more… — H. L. Mencken
Does management resist the institutional imperative? — Warren Buffett
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. — Horace Mann
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. — Marquis de Sade
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot… — Nathaniel Branden
I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in… — Neal A. Maxwell
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national… — Neville Chamberlain
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to… — Douglas MacArthur
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? — Derrick Jensen
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate… — William Godwin
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to… — Tom Peters

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