Resists Quotes
86 Resists quotes by 81 unique authors
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Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It…
— Mariama Bâ
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Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in…
— Dan Millman
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No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
— Philip K. Dick
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Truth resists simplicity.
— John Green
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what…
— Albert Camus
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The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
— Jacques Lacan
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But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until…
— Christopher McDougall
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But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running…
— Christopher McDougall
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
— Irving Stone
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The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
— Bernard Beckett
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But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
— Lauren Oliver
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love,…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly,…
— Ruth Ozeki
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
— William Beveridge
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The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps…
— Wilfred Trotter
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
— Elliott Abrams
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Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia -…
— Simon Travaglia
Who Wrote These Resists Quotes
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