Resistant Quotes

80 quotes by 76 authors

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. — Sylvia Day
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides. — Nina Fedoroff
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find… — Amy Dickinson
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to… — Bonnie Bassler
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. — Patti Smith
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing. — Ben Whishaw
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving… — Martin Filler
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not… — Eric Clapton
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Very well,â€ Beatrix said reluctantly. â€œBut I warn you, they may be resistant to the match.â€ â€œIâ€™m resistant to the match,â€ Christopher informed her. â€œAt… — Lisa Kleypas
He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a NazgÃ»l, endowed with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment… — Joan Didion
The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant… — C.S. Lewis
But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get… — Lauren Oliver

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