Resist Quotes
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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 -
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.
Edwin Arthur Hall
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We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
John Calvin -
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
Nuno Oliveira -
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 -
Resist much, obey little.
Walt Whitman -
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).
Walt Whitman -
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
Honore de Balzac -
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
Benjamin Carson -
To create is to resist, to resist is to create.
Stephane Hessel -
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Benjamin Carson -
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
Boyd K. Packer -
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.
Raoul Walsh -
It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.
Benjamin Wittes