Top 100 Resist Quotes
#1. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.
Gloria Furman
#2. They're too beaten down - they don't have the will or the hope to resist. That
Brandon Sanderson
#3. There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
Louise Erdrich
#4. Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat.
Stormie O'martian
#5. You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.
Ice Cube
#6. This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?
Myles Horton
#7. I can resist anything except temptation. Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
Nora Ephron
#9. The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.
Fady Joudah
#10. Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.
Brent Hartinger
#11. (M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.
Dennis McFadden
#12. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah
#13. In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.
Michael Dummett
#14. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Alan Watts
#16. Maybe I'm just unable to resist how handsome he is," she said. Sam went rigid.
"He's twelve years older than you."
"So?" He didn't think he was serious, did he?
Sarah J. Maas
#17. Fresh popcorn is near impossible to resist, second only to fresh doughnuts.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#18. Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
Max Lucado
#19. Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
Marianne Williamson
#20. 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
#21. There's no way a woman could possibly resist your charm"
Dominic smiled. "Or my dick. Don't worry, I won't get it out. I don't want you all to get intimidated. and in the interest of health and safety, I think it's better that he's not unleashed.
Suzanne Wright
#22. How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?
John Wesley
#23. As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.
Tara Brach
#24. 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
#25. Most TV programs are aimed at destruction. We need to resist this by establishing the truth of God on air.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#27. I thought you said you didn't want this to happen," she whispered, still dizzy from his kiss. "That there was too much at stake."
"You're a hard woman to resist, Yasmin Katsalos...
Barbara DeLeo
#28. Though both partners may wish for reconciliation, their unspoken goals are often sharply in conflict. The abuser usually wishes to reestablish his pattern of coercive control, while the victim wishes to resist it.
Judith Lewis Herman
#29. The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.
Robert A. Johnson
#30. Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#31. You're saying you think one of my staff might be a terrorist." She kept her face neutral, but couldn't resist asking the next question, like poking at a sore tooth. "Is this the first organization you've visited?" "Yes.
Lisa Nicholas
#32. Kate& Derek
"No, Kate, you don't understand. He vanished. He was there one moment and then he was gone."
I couldn't resist. "Like a ninja. In a puff of smoke.
Ilona Andrews
#33. Walk away. Leave her be.
And let this opportunity pass?
Relinquish the chance to be alone with her while she admired his art?
The temptation was too much to resist.
Lisa Carlisle
#34. Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.
Noel DeJesus
#35. Think about your own life. Are there foods or drinks that "call your name" in your weakest moments - like maybe at night in front of the TV? Are there certain "treats" you can hardly resist when they're in your presence? Are there "goodies" that you continue to eat even after you're full?
Josh Bezoni
#36. Guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.
Dean Koontz
#37. But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.
Michael Swanwick
#38. People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
Alain De Botton
#39. Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.
Grenville Kleiser
#40. To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere.
Sam Keen
#41. Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
Gustave Flaubert
#42. A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
Chuck Baldwin
#43. To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.
Aleister Crowley
#44. Was there anyone before you?" "You might have thought so at the time." "I feel like no one's ever loved me before." "I'm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me." Monica Faulkner, Jonathan Drazen - Resist
C.D. Reiss
#45. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#46. Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#47. It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
Randy Alcorn
#48. Three thousand pounds of steel and glass and plastic that no thing made out of flesh could resist. A car.
T.C. Boyle
#49. People tend to resist a change into something new and different.
But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.
Toba Beta
#50. It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.
Thomas Moore
#51. When leaders wonder what they can do to position their societies for the industries of the future, they need to open up and resist control-freak tendencies. The 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak; future grown depends on empowering people.
Alec J. Ross
#52. The promise of destroying an enemy so utterly is hard to resist.
Ginn Hale
#53. The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water ... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.
Martin Seligman
#54. I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
Stephen Daldry
#55. My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#56. Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
James Bovard
#58. If you have enough unanswered questions, you have a certifiable mystery, and those are impossible to resist.
Lisa Lutz
#59. I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.
He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
Amy Winehouse
#60. No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of Palestinian resistance, it is the existence of Palestinians on their land that Israel takes issue with.
Remi Kanazi
#61. Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.
Jim Al-Khalili
#62. But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
King Albert II
#63. I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
Aleksandar Hemon
#64. Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
Erving Goffman
#65. What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.
Thomas Kuhn
#66. Instead, take everything as it comes Accept your preferences, but do not insist on them Take other's views as their right, as you have yours Resist nothing- accept everything Stay here no matter what, and you achieve peace And allow it to others
Matthew S. Barnes
#67. We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions.
Bryant McGill
#68. The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.
Sergei Udaltsov
#69. Antony could not resist her and put his hands into her hair, holding it tightly and kissed her with boiling.
Pet Torres
#70. Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.
Northrop Frye
#71. The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
They all need to go on safari together.
Thomas L. Friedman
#72. The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.
Brian Tracy
#73. I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
Thelma Golden
#74. Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.
Neal Boortz
#75. Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
Yoshimi Ishikawa
#77. It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
Zoe Heller
#79. Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn't resist the challenge.
Rick Riordan
#80. You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand
#82. Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
John Barton
#83. As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
#84. As for the sport, even there Kasparov couldn't resist a sideswipe. Most of the gold in Sochi will go to Switzerland, but into secret bank accounts.
Anonymous
#85. An eight-pound Cheddar. No one can resist a bit of Cheddar cheese, ma'am. Not even the dead.
Julia Stuart
#86. Feel the attraction. Do not resist the love. Give yourself for love.
Debasish Mridha
#87. The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
John Locke
#88. He leans against me and gives a gentle push. I resist curving my neck into that place on his shoulder.
Kimberly Russell
#89. I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
Edna O'Brien
#90. The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.
Idries Shah
#91. When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.
Beth Moore
#92. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Brian Tracy
#93. They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#94. Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
Ian McEwan
#95. What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#96. It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one's own country, than an outcast from one's self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
Chris Hedges
#97. America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion ... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.
Frank Pavone
#98. But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
Kathy Griffin
#99. 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
#100. People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
Conor Oberst
