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Quotes About Resist

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
~ Jerry Falwell
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.
~ Jeff Sessions
Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
~ Tom Sizemore
Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple.
~ Michael Greger
A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.
~ Tom McCarthy
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~ Steve Lacy
Temptation to behave is terrible.
~ Bertolt Brecht
When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Anyway, I'm sure you'll be able to handle Garnet Five. Just be your usual charming self." Ekaterin's vision of him, he reminded himself, was not exactly objective. Thank God. "I've been trying to charm quaddies all day, with no noticeable success." "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. And Nicol will be playing in the orchestra tonight.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Promise me one thing. He nodded and she continued, Whenever you are about to do something terrible, think of me, and then don't do it.
~ Louis de Bernieres
The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy's capacity to resist.
~ Louis L'Amour
My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
No aceptar ningún dogma sino hasta ver si es capaz de resistir un buen chiste
~ Rosario Castellanos
But artists and writers and musicians like your dad are helpless to resist the dark side's pull. This is territory that books know well, and it's our job not to turn away from it, whether we like it or not.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Let the thunder of a hundred cannon remind you three times daily to resist the force of habit.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
~ Mencius
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.
~ Samuel Johnson
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
~ Warren Buffett
La palabra secuestro es muy fea. ¿Por qué no lo considera como una invitación difícil de resistir?
~ Joe Abercrombie
It is the job of governments to resist entrepreneurs' lobbying until basic developmental objectives have been achieved.
~ Joe Studwell
Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.
~ Joel Osteen
Do not swallow anything Satan is trying to ram down your throat. Jesus comes first.
~ Joel Osteen
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
~ Thomas Huxley