Resist Quotes

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

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

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

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.

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

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

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

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.

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.

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.

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

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

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.

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.