Quotes About Resisted

My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as 'the sum of the functions by which death is resisted

We tossed the bag into the pool. I resisted the urge to jump in after it. There you go, Andvari, I said. Enjoy. Or maybe Andvari was gone. In which case we'd just made a family of trout billionaires.

Emerson long resisted a public stand on behalf of abolitionism

Una frase trató de tomar forma en mi boca y mis labios se abrieron como los de un mudo, como si se les resistiera algo más que un asustado soplo de aire. Pero no emitieron ningún sonido, y lo que había estado a punto de recordar se convirtió en incomunicable para siempre.

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

God's justice, as Desmond Tutu insisted, is not retributive but restorative.64 It is natural that many do not understand this, because "God's love, resisted, is felt as wrath.

I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.

Not everywhere Spiked at the same time, of course; some regions resisted, but the spread of AI was inevitable. It bred and mutated—evolved—until it seemed likely to absorb everything. It was like a virus eating away at its host, killing everything in its search for nutrients. "Like a virus, though, it also outreached itself. No disease survives by killing its host. It had finished work on the Earth and was partway through absorbing Venus when it began to self-destruct. So

Bezos insisted the company needed to master anything that touched the hallowed customer experience, and he resisted any efforts to project profitability.

Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.

Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse.

The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.

what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me

Fang? Are you- like Max? asked Dr. Martinez. Nope,he said, sounding bored. I'm the smart one. I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

to let the military direct the entire process...is so dangerous that it must be resisted at all costs.

It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Next to the ague, curiosity is the most devilish affliction a body can be stung with. It's the most humanizing thing next to being born and can't be resisted....

Had they not wounded her, she'd be inaccessible to him. Had she not resisted the darkness so successfully, she'd not be strong enough to handle what he was about to do to her. She'd been damaged, but not irreparably. Fragmented and strong, the perfect mix for him.

We took them up to the register, where the student worker on duty had a large silver ring pierced through the side of her nose. I had an urge to get Rochester's leash and see if I could hook it to her ring, but I resisted.