Resist Quotes

889 Resist quotes by 698 unique authors

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world,… — Pablo Picasso
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. — C.D. Payne
Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. — Karen Marie Moning
Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in… — Steven Morrissey
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. — Benjamin Carson
I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me.” "And why is that?” If he flexed again, I’d have to implement emergency measures.… — Ilona Andrews
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those… — Howard Zinn
My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil,… — Lord Byron
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist… — Milan Kundera
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. — Edith Hamilton
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when… — Stanley Milgram
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning. — Nicole Jordan
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,… — Mark Doty
They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy… — Jim Butcher
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel… — Lauren Oliver
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent… — Greg Mortenson
his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or… — Thomas Pynchon
What were you thinking? You just met him. (Selena) I know. It’s so not like me, but I couldn’t help myself. It was just like… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON- — Eoin Colfer
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. — Wayne Dyer
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the… — Oscar Wilde

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