Top 79 Cannot Resist Quotes

#1. Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

Viktor E. Frankl

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#2. During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast.

Christian Louboutin

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#3. Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

Elise Blackwell

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#4. Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.

John Henry Newman

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#5. I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Charles Darwin

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#6. Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Victor Hugo

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#8. Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Warren Buffett

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#9. Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

Thomas Jefferson

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#10. There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! ... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Agatha Christie

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#11. Life is like a rape. If we cannot resist it, split the legs and enjoy it.

Aaron Lee

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#12. She still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head.

Mark Z. Danielewski

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#13. Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Wilkie Collins

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#14. The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

Thomas Boston

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#15. A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

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#16. I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Charles W. Chesnutt

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#17. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

Andrea Bocelli

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#18. Reason is the gatekeeper, but it cannot resist the rushing torrents of emotion

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#19. Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly "free" state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

Tiffany Madison

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#20. The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

Anais Nin

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#21. You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Thomas Carlyle

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#22. I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

A.S. Byatt

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#23. People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

John Steinbeck

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#24. My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

Jane Yolen

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#25. For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Marisha Pessl

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#26. I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

Helen Prejean

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#27. There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

Anthony Trollope

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#28. The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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#29. Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding
something personal.

Wim Crouwel

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#30. One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

Samuel Hall Lord

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#31. There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

Joss Whedon

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#32. Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Audre Lorde

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#33. When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.

Eckhart Tolle

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#34. There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

John Quincy Adams

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#35. Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

R.L. LaFevers

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#36. The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.

Watchman Nee

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#37. Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

Joseph Stalin

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#38. Falling in love is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. Its a feeling that you cannot resist and a feeling that you can almost never forget. Being touched by the feeling of love is the most memorable of all.

Peter Stafford

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#39. You are my siren," he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. "My temptress ... my sorceress ... I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

Sarah MacLean

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#40. Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So

Walter Brueggemann

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#41. One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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#42. We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.

Kennon Callahan

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

Jules Verne

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#44. We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have found it, we cannot turn away.

Emma Bull

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#45. Every time we linger in bad company whose insidious influence we know we cannot resist, every time we lie in bed when we ought to be up and praying, every time we read pornographic literature, every time we take a risk which strains our self-control, we are sowing, sowing, sowing to the flesh.

John R.W. Stott

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#46. Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.

Noel DeJesus

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#47. But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

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#48. We cannot resist everything; we can only choose the forces to which we will submit.

Pauline Ashwell

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#49. The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

Edmund Morgan

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#50. You cannot resist the encanto!

Cassandra Clare

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

Charles De Gaulle

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#52. One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Rudyard Kipling

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#53. Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

Max Lucado

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#54. Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is very near immortal, as long as humans remember them. Not to say he is immune to iron and technology-far from it. Puck is strong, but even he cannot resist the effects.

Julie Kagawa

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#55. The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig.

Peter Matthiessen

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#56. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.

E.L. James

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#57. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

Jim Butcher

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#58. Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.

Steven Brust

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#59. Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

Karan Casey

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#60. The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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#61. There's a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.'
More than men come back, I said.

Leland Hall

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#62. A person who lives by the rules of the world cannot resist the devil, cannot fight him

Sunday Adelaja

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#63. Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.

Denis De Rougemont

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#64. Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

E. M. Forster

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#65. I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Dan Groat

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#66. Faith is always required. There are some things that cannot be proven. We believe that life is worth living. That is an article of faith. The purpose of life is to live, to resist death, perhaps to defy entropy.

George R R Martin

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#67. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#68. Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

Woody Allen

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#69. He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Horace Mann

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#70. I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

Alfred E. Perlman

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#71. Although we cannot stop the rapid pace of innovation, we can make wise choices regarding how to remain grounded and resist being drawn into reactionary modes of behavior trying to constantly keep up.

David Passiak

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#72. The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Christian Louboutin

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#73. People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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#74. We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

Rudolf Spielmann

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#75. Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#76. Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

Milan Kundera

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#77. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

Audre Lorde

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#78. You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Eckhart Tolle

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#79. I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

Mary Stewart

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