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Resisting Quotes

Resisting Definition

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
James L. Buckley

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

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
John Blair

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
Brian Aldiss

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
Tom Flynn

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
Fred Barnes

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Charles Stanley

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

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