Resist Quotes

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

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

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

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

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.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.