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

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
Edward Sapir

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
William Greider

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Franklin P. Jones

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
Hugh Mackay

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
Sarah Brady

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
John Barton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
Fredric Jameson

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.
Rose Schneiderman

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
Edward Zwick

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Margaret Mitchell

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
Mary Wesley

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
Rick Ross

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Simon Wiesenthal