Quotes About Resist

I need a bath." Wanted to give her his absolute best, and be her best. He stood to unsteady legs and pulled her to her feet. She pouted, saying, "But why? I like you dirty. Filthy, even." How had he ever resisted her?

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.

Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress.

Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

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

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Flee from what you can't fight.

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

We can't escape the need to loveNorCan we resist the longing to be loved

Now I am punished by privilege and comfort—and I can't resist comfort.

In fact we humans are very bad at filtering information, particularly short-term information, and procrastination can be a way for us to filter better, to resist the consequences of jumping on information, as we discuss next.

Christ comes indeed, and opens up his own way, no matter whether man is ready beforehand or not. No-one can hinder his coming, but we can resist his coming in mercy. " —ETHICS

hopelessness can create an atmosphere where fixable problems become unfixable ones. We must work to resist this erosion in our belief in the potential of our own behavior and actions to change things.

Caught between fear and doubt, we contend with Fate and resist it, fearing that without renewed effort, or a change of course to find an easier way, we will be stuck in the losing position.

My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.

I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.