Quotes About Resistance

Life, it turns out, isn't poetry. Do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism.

It's worth rushing to the ends of the world, to oppose aggression and evil, isn't it, Witcher?

Strachliwego masz ch?opa, Mary?ka. - Edek nala? kieliszek i poda? m?zczy?nie. - Pij! Na odwag?! - Jaki on mój. Tak przychodz?... - powiedzia?a kobieta i obci?gne?a bluzk? na baniastych piersiach. - A do mnie by? przysz?a? - Edek wetkn?? kciuki za pasek i odchyli? si? z krzes?em do ty?u. - Ja boj?ca nie jestem. - ?ysne?a srebrnym z?bem i wypu?ci?a pogardliwy k??b dymu.

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

I'm not going to be pushed around by some Oswald Mosley wannabe with delusions of grandeur.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

But Tony, though he had never heard of the word attrition, had great faith in his own powers of wearing down his mother's resistance. He had found by long experience that if one asked for a thing often enough, simply ignoring rebuffs and refusals, one could usually get what one wanted.

Imagine having a similar conversation with yourself. "I can't get my eating under control. It's aggravating to me that I can't resist tempting foods." These thoughts are filled with self-doubt and diminish our hopes about making a change. A more helpful thought would be, "I'm feeling frustrated with my struggle to resist tempting foods, yet I can work on ways to overcome this challenge.

Part of you recognizes you should change something about your actions, but another part is still attached to the old ways, no matter how uncomfortable they are. This is normal. This is part of being human.

The pilothouse could just about withstand the odd seagull landing on it, but it had no chance against a dragon whose total weight in seagulls was exactly 764.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

After all, it was easy enough to be virtuous if there was no temptation.

Hiya... Sorry, it you're selling something, I'm skint. And if you're selling religion, I'm an atheist. The resident God-botherer is out. So, there's nothing for you here.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.