No Resistance Quotes

#1. In that moment of truce, of utter surrender, when the rabbit still alive offers no resistance but only waits, is it possible that the rabbit also loves the owl?

Edward Abbey

#2. Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

Paula McLain

#4. Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

Laozi

#6. Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

Morihei Ueshiba

#7. The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

Peter Dawson

#8. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life - to allow life to live through you.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#10. Nevertheless the joy of being with Dinah would triumph - it was like the influence of climate, which no resistance can overcome.

George Eliot

#11. The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.

Sigmund Freud

#12. There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight.

Rumi

#13. That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

Laozi

#14. Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#15. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

Audrey Niffenegger

#16. We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.

Deepak Chopra

#17. It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all.

John Steinbeck

#18. The Chief smiled. In his eyes, there was no resistance, no remorse, no sadness, no fear, no pain. Nothing. There was no soul

Jennifer Hillier

#19. Russia will invade Ukraine, probably within the next few weeks. They will annex the Crimea. From there, if they meet no resistance from the West, they will take more of the country,

Tom Clancy

#20. Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying "Yes, Lord!" - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#21. Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

#22. The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don't be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it.

Steve Maraboli

#23. I let go of the pump as well now. I registered a sense of fatigue. And regret. It was the same fatigue and regret you feel when you miss a tennis ball. You were planning to smash it, but you swing hard and miss; the arm holding the racket meets no resistance and lashes wildly through the air.

Herman Koch

#24. Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.

David Brooks

#25. I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Therese Of Lisieux

#26. Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."
"As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.

Alan Dean Foster

#27. At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Maya Angelou

#28. Resistance has no conscience.

Steven Pressfield

#29. She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance
shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.

Cassandra Clare

#30. There is no need to use force. Instead, create a path of least resistance, and gravity will do the rest.

Michael Dunlap

#31. A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

Albert Hadley

#32. There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Sigmund Freud

#33. There is no movement without our own resistance.

Laura Schlessinger

#34. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.

Hannah Senesh

#35. For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

Vandana Shiva

#36. If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

Isobelle Carmody

#37. There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

Khaled Mashal

#38. There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#39. I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

Anne Michaels

#40. Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Hans Selye

#41. Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When yo are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a nonissue.

Abraham Hicks

#42. There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

Leonard Jacobson

#43. When resistance no longer serves you, you'll no longer have it.

John De Ruiter

#44. The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

Hugh Kingsmill

#45. Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing.

Vicki Lesage

#46. Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

Arundhati Roy

#47. I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Margaret Atwood

#48. Remember, Resistance wants us to cede sovereignty to others. It wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can't take this. No one can.

Steven Pressfield

#49. Democratic Senator Harry Reid is expected to make a full recovery after he was exercising with a resistance band that snapped, causing him to fall. The good news is he's fine. The bad news is there's no video of it.

Jimmy Fallon

#50. The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.

But there are no adults. We own this mess.

Timothy Snyder

#51. It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

Bertrand Russell

#52. Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

Henri Matisse

#53. If your idea of strength is mere ignorant resistance, then you have no ability to project intelligent force in the world. In which case, your only choices are to be a doormat or a difficulty.

Kevin Casey

#54. The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Tom Peters

#55. It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

Hans Fallada

#56. The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

Arundhati Roy

#57. To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.

William R. Forstchen

#58.
All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance?
Yes. No. Y-Yes ... Naynayno. Whynoyes.
Yes, Promethea is a woman.
Yes, but "because is a woman," that is not important.
But no it precisely its not being important that is so important.

Helene Cixous

#59. There's no denying you'll find yourself in places you won't want to be, seeing things you wish you weren't seeing, but resistance to now is resistance to the very life you're living.

Jared T.L.C.

#60. It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something ... What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?

Hans Scholl

#61. No ordinary effort stops the wheel.
In sleep it spins without resistance.
Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.

Stephen Demone

#62. As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

Henri Nouwen

#63. My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Charles Atlas

#64. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Henry Highland Garnet

#65. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

#66. Are you with the Resistance?" "No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can." Fleur

Stephen P. Kiernan

#67. Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#68. In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

Mohammed Mahdi Akef

#69. Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.

John Hancock

#70. Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating,

Joshua Sharfstein

#71. Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

Khaled Mashal

#72. Without temptation, there was no virtue in resistance.

Cherie Priest

#73. This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

#74. This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Victor Davis Hanson

#75. No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

Friedrich Engels

#76. No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

Li Mu

#77. As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Madeleine Albright

#78. The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

Swami Vivekananda

#79. There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

David O. McKay

#80. What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun
which is to say, preserving the human spirit.

Tom Robbins

#81. I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That's 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

Ric Flair

#82. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

#83. We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.

Milan Kundera

#84. I've always know who should be leading this resistance. Someone who's got nothing left to lose and everything to gain. Someone no longer afraid of anyone? Should be me.

Tahereh Mafi

#85. Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Ulrike Marie Meinhof

#86. If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

William James

#87. In a world where we seem to be beset by a trend towards 'manualising treatment modalities' the person-centred approach stands and says NO, that is not the way forward.

Richard Bryant-Jefferies

#88. I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

Erin O'Connor

#89. Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

Bashar Al-Assad

#90. Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Jordan Flaherty

#91. Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

John Henry Newman

#92. None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful ... it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury ... we repay your hatred with kindness.

Cyprian

#93. Even hearing him say those words thrilled her. She wanted him to possess her. To desire her. To ravish her. She no longer had any resistance against him. He could do as he pleased and she would give in.

Audra Claire

#94. History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi

#95. Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

Steve Albini

#96. Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment.

Dean Koontz

#97. We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#98. Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Eckhart Tolle

#99. Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Robert Conklin

#100. Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

Simon Bolivar