Quotes of: Resist Keyword

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I think the universe might be sending us a sign.

Dare to Resist

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Metapolitics

They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Sydney Smith

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Karl Abraham

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Muqtada al Sadr

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

Michael Swanwick

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Gene Robinson

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Jane Byrne

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

Lysander Spooner

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Andrew Weil

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

Cecily Strong

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Franklin P. Jones

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Carl Jung