Resists Quotes
86 quotes by 82 authors
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and…
— John Calvin
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or…
— Albert Camus
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Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
— Dan Millman
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender;…
— Rajneesh
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
— John Hay
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until…
— Johannes Kepler
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It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it…
— Suzanne Segal
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
— Walter Scott
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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the…
— Pope Paul VI
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
— Albert Einstein
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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
— Ovid
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Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists…
— C.S. Lewis
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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step…
— William Bridges
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the…
— Seneca the Younger
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
— Ariel Durant
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