Quotes of: Resist Keyword

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Why Marx Was Right

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

Yukio Mishima's Report To The Emperor

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Anthony Albanese

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of re...

Fredric Jameson

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

Rick Ross

No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water, Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

Peter Berg

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

Patricia Hamill

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.

Susan Del Gatto

I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Salman Rushdie

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

Simon Wiesenthal

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Thomas Jefferson

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

Klaus Kinski

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Larry McMurtry

Life Works in a Very Simple Way. Resist it less and allow it unfold the way it wants. Use your power of allowing.

Raphael Zernoff