Resist Quotes

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

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

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

What we resist persists.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

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.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.