Resist Quotes

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

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

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.