Quotes About Resist

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.

no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.

Toddlers often resist a command to "go to the car" but respond cheerfully to a request like "I need your help. Will you carry the keys to the car for me?

Provide Opportunities to Help Toddlers often resist a command to "go to the car" but respond cheerfully to a request like "I need your help. Will you carry the keys to the car for me?" Activities that might easily have become power struggles and battles can become opportunities for laughter and closeness if you use your instincts and creativity.

I give her a lot of credit. She's one of the few humans I've met who could resist saying 'I told you so.' " "Such a statement would be quite unnecessary, Captain." "Spock, you've worked with humans long enough to know that simply because something is unnecessary doesn't mean it isn't done.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.

Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.

O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.

Will that branch hold two?" I said, looking at it. "Maybe. The question is whether you're willing to risk it." I swung onto the branch and started sidling out. He grinned. " Dumb question, wasn't it?" "It was." "You can't resist me." "No, I can't resist a dare.

There were more police than Fascists. From inside one of the buses, a uniformed constable gave him the Hitler salute. Lloyd was dismayed. If all these policemen sided with the Fascists, how could the counterdemonstrators resist them?

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!

The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.

The spiritual warfare is defensive, not offensive, because the Lord Jesus has already fought the battle and won the victory. The work of the church on the earth is simply to maintain the Lord's victory. The Lord has already won the battle, and the church is here to maintain His victory. The church's work is not to overcome the devil but to resist him who has already been overcome by the Lord.

Listen, here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves. What we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include. —From the movie Chocolat

Do not resist the flow of your life because it's your destiny.

At this time, we do not believe large-scale ground combat is necessary to battle the latest wave of jihad. In Iraq, we have willing allies, much stronger allies than we had at the time of the 2003 invasion. And Israel has more than enough military strength to repel attacks on its homeland; it needs only American support to resist crushing international pressure to stand down in the face of jihad, pressure that always allows jihadists to ultimately live to fight another day.