Resisted Quotes

130 quotes by 121 authors

Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you… — Esther Hicks
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. — Tycho Brahe
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical. — John Bunyan
Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since… — Francis Arinze
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. — Robert Burns
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied… — Christian Nestell Bovee
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of… — Pope Francis
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web,… — Tryon Edwards
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life...… — Ezekiel Emanuel
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at… — Bode Miller
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. — Richard M. Nixon
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary… — Joyce Carol Oates
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted… — Steven Pinker
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the… — Lysander Spooner
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed… — Steve Martin
Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that… — Curtis Sittenfeld
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must… — Frederick Douglass
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. — Louisa May Alcott

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