Resist Quotes
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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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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
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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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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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A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.
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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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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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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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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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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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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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Resist much, obey little.
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Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
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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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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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The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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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.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
