Resist Quotes

889 Resist quotes by 698 unique authors

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance… — Plutarch
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us… — C.S. Lewis
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its… — Henry David Thoreau
We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we… — Corrie Ten Boom
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well,… — Hermann Hesse
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger;… — Zane Grey
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our… — Mother Teresa
Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to… — Lauren Weisberger
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. — Tami Hoag
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and… — Mark Helprin
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate… — Jeanette Winterson
Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like… — Christopher Moore
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated… — Primo Levi
But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so,… — Ian Mcewan
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I… — John Keats
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language… — Barbara Kingsolver
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone… — Dean Koontz
Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. — Christopher Pike
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the… — Alice Walker
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once… — Walt Whitman
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down.… — Haruki Murakami

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