Resist Quotes

889 Resist quotes by 698 unique authors

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch… — Marisha Pessl
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty… — James M. Barrie
The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is… — Utah Phillips
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is… — Thomas Merton
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson
Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these… — Douglas Adams
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. — Lois McMaster Bujold
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. — Audre Lorde
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. — Victor Hugo
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's… — Thomas Hardy
What you resist, persists — Neale Donald Walsch
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist… — C.S. Lewis
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and… — Hermann Hesse
Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. — Harper Lee
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie… — Thomas Moore
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot… — Ayn Rand
Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what… — Sheri L. Dew
I have never been able to resist a book about books. — Anne Fadiman
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of… — Yann Martel
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. — Wallace Stevens
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. — Eckhart Tolle
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and… — Hillary Clinton

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