Sophocles Quotes
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.Sophocles
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
Oliver Tambo -
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
Salman Rushdie -
When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
Bashar al-Assad -
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.
T. S. Eliot
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis -
EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.
Jason Mraz -
A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.
Kami Garcia -
I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.
Kami Garcia -
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
Napoleon Hill -
Out of resistance comes strength.
Napoleon Hill
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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
Napoleon Hill -
Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.
Van Morrison -
Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
Corrie Ten Boom -
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
Ulrike Meinhof -
The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.
Hal Elrod
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
Virginia Woolf -
If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.
Carol Plum-Ucci -
Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
Chris Matthews -
I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
Nalini Singh -
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.
Sophocles