Resist Quotes

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.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

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

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

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

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

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

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

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

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.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.