Quotes of: Resist Keyword

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

Christopher Reeve

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Emile Lahoud

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Anne Lamott

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Alanis Morissette

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Theophile Gautier

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Ruth J. Simmons

This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar forests so thick that sunlight never touched the ground? One of the first written myths of this culture is about Gilgamesh defor...

Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK) "...If given a choice between violent resista...

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

When I shoot, the ball bounces hard against the backboard, and flies wildly through the air, knocking the coach in the head. I slap a hand over my mouth. The coach barely catches herself from falling. Several students laugh. She glares at me and read...

Firelight

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort of effacement of oneself from history. The entire record of the human race has been falsified, it has been made up...

A Place of Greater Safety

Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing a...

House of Leaves

The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose no side. It gave the girl next to me in the hospital pneumonia; it also ...

G. Willow Wilson

Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would have resisted Hitler when he came to power. So the great shame is, clearly film critics should have been running Austria at the time, be...

David Hare

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The Art of War

The old resists the new one. 'Change hurts' is the reason.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile." Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!

Burn for Me

I’ve never been one to resist a single entendre.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery