An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
Katherine Dunn

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.
William Standish Knowles

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine of Hippo

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
Anthony Head

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
Larry McMurtry

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
Aung San Suu Kyi

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
Tycho Brahe

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
Stephen Ambrose

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
Joyce Maynard

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.
Francis Arinze

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
Joseph Ratzinger

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
Ed Markey

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell