Quotes of: Resist Keyword

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Mahmoud Darwish

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Thomas Sowell

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

Geoffrey Zakarian

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

Augustine of Hippo

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

Ahmed Yassin

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Albert Bushnell Hart

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Ernestine Rose

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

Phoebe Philo

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.

The Essential Charlotte

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

How can it be wrong? Love picks the right path, not the one of least resistance.

Bittersweet Seraphim

for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.

The Arthashastra

Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.

A Habit of Resistance

All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.

The Resistance

Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn't it?

The Resistance

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

My Legendary Girlfriend

Every resistance will be met and conquered until you've soared over the sweet edge of surrender.

The Nymph King

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Under the Volcano