Resist Quotes
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
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In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
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Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
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It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled.
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
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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.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness.
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Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limits, is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other - incrementally.
