Top 100 To Resist Quotes
#1. I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
S.J Perelman
#2. Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.
L. Neil Smith
#3. I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#4. The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
Pema Chodron
#5. There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Charles De Secondat
#6. I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.
Lindsey Vonn
#7. I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.
Adam Schiff
#8. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think.
Lauren Oliver
#9. Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.
Meera Uberoi
#10. only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.
Laura Dave
#11. What is the purpose of piety if there are no temptations to resist? Man is not God, his strength is the ability to restrain his own nature, so I thought, and if he has nothing to restrain, then what are his merits?
Mesa Selimovic
#12. I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable ... eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.
Pope Francis
#13. Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety - and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.
Kelly G. Wilson
#14. He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.
Primo Levi
#15. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Edith Hamilton
#16. She felt like a god. She dreamed of people who could fight back. Of wills strong enough to resist her.
V.E Schwab
#17. How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser
#18. The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized ... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.
Walter Wink
#19. (People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.)
Tim Kreider
#20. It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
Unknown
#21. Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
Mortimer J. Adler
#22. The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.
Conrad Aiken
#23. I have never been able to resist a book about books.
Anne Fadiman
#24. I wanted to resist, allowing the night to go on forever. As we walked along the beach, I pressed my feet into the sand firmly, leaving an impression deep enough to last a lifetime.
And I did not look back...
Scott Hildreth
#25. Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
Christopher Pike
#26. What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist?
Anne Bronte
#27. She wouldn't want to be caught on his bad side - assuming he had a good side - yet the naughty bad boy vibes were like an undercurrent pulling her in.
Don't-mess-with-me meets I-dare-you-to-resist.
Kelly Moran
#28. Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.
John Ciardi
#29. They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change.
Mohsin Hamid
#30. Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.
Raoul Walsh
#31. We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
Ron Paul
#32. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#33. When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
Mencius
#34. If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#35. Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.
Caroline Knapp
#36. Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
Brian Tracy
#37. No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?
Michel De Montaigne
#38. Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. When children's innocence is used as a tactic to suppress queer adults, readers need to resist, not children, but those who conscript children to fight their own ideological agendas.
Tison Pugh
#40. The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Lysander Spooner
#41. The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
Benazir Bhutto
#42. I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.
Anthony Bourdain
#43. The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
Gene Sharp
#44. We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#45. It is incredibly difficult to resist our desire to form narratives, to tell stories even if they may not be altogether correct, or correct at all. We like simplicity. We like concrete reasons. We like causes. We like things that make intuitive sense (even if that sense happens to be wrong)
Anonymous
#46. Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.
Jane Krakowski
#47. We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
Matthew Henry
#48. I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
Daniel Libeskind
#49. With my subjects - the thousands of people I have photographed - I have shared the joy of survival, the courage to resist oppression, the anguish of loss, the resilience of the oppressed, the brutality of the worst of men and the tenderness of the best.
Lynsey Addario
#50. The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.
Judith Schaechter
#51. The Force tries to resist the callings of ravenous spirits; therefore it must be broken and made a beast of burden. It must be made to answer to one's will.
James Luceno
#52. Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.
Dave Ramsey
#53. Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of indefinable resonance that I find impossible to resist.
Haruki Murakami
#54. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker
#55. One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.
Jack Sparrow
#56. One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.
John Dos Passos
#57. Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.
Nancy Pearcey
#58. It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.
Sydney Thompson Dobell
#59. It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
Tacitus
#61. It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
Theodor W. Adorno
#62. When you love, especially with your heart, it comes upon you so fast, you don't have time to resist.
Jennifer Ashley
#63. All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.
H.L. Mencken
#64. You're a spelling bee champ, aren't you, White Fang? How do you spell, 'If I don't learn to speak to my betters with more respect, I'm going to get my face smashed in'?"
Tom laughed, unable to resist. "That one's easy. It's K-A-R-L.
S.J. Kincaid
#65. His dark hair was thick and looked so soft I had to resist the urge to touch it. Looking into his dark eyes was like falling into the stars, making me feel weightless and disoriented.
Gwen Hayes
#66. Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
Arnold Lobel
#67. It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away.
Nicci French
#68. Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
Levon Helm
#69. If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.
Joe Nichols
#70. It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
Christopher Reeve
#71. Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability.
T.F. Hodge
#72. The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#73. The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
#74. If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.
Lois Greiman
#75. When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.
Tariq Ali
#76. In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
George Orwell
#77. Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!
Katherine McNamara
#78. When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#79. Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
John Locke
#80. Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader's attention only as long as the author sustains the reader's trust.
Jonathan Franzen
#81. Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
E.B. White
#82. To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.
Ally Condie
#86. The meager splash of charm he rationed with that ripped body and sexy swagger, made him nearly impossible to resist.
Debra Webb
#87. He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.
Jeaniene Frost
#88. A wise prince then ... should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#89. This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist.
David Liss
#91. I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
Clint Eastwood
#92. Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.
Tom DeLay
#93. The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.
Thomas Berry
#94. I still loved Marc desperately and couldn't imagine life without him. Jace was ... something else. Something I could feel but couldn't articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn't been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.
Rachel Vincent
#95. There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. It's very easy to resist men, isn't it? But managing to pick the right one
that is truly worthy of praise.
Meredith Duran
#97. Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
Edward Dahlberg
#98. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#99. Temptation is impossible for me to resist ... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
Tom Sizemore
#100. The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
Daniel Webster
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