Resist Quotes

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.
Guy Finley

Made, Moment, Learn

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
Cindy Sheehan

Lie, Country, Put

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.
Joanna Newsom

Everything, Wanted, Felt

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

America, Others, Attention

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
David Neeleman

Giving, Law, Enough

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

Democracy, Continue, Genuine

What we resist persists.
Sonia Johnson

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.
William Odom

Political, Old, Point

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
Rob Bell

God, Story, Sins

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.
Jesse Helms

Business, State, Value

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Roger Mahony

Able, United, Temptation

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction, Tend, Interpret

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
Patrick Carney

Music, Hard, Whatever

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
Daniel Greenberg

Change, Age, Through

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
Lisa Snowdon

Trying, Enjoy, Free

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
William Adams

Time, Able, Neither

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.
Giorgio Napolitano

America, Again, Once

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

Together, Stand

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
Deborah Harkness

Few, Characters, Novel

In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
Xi Jinping

Time, Great, Fight

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright

Science, Ignorance, Nothing

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
Cindy Sheehan

Strength, War, Against

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
Howard Finster

Done, Give, Able

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

Wants, Universal, Thinks

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
Ruth J. Simmons

Women, Strong, Action

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
Felix Bloch

Enough, Eyes, Themselves

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.
Arrian

Half, Gave, Naked

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
James Mill

Government, Detail, Operations

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.
Raoul Walsh

Good, Hard, Line

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.
Sergei Udaltsov

Harder, Tougher, Response

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