Quotes About Resistance

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

All my life I have fought corruption.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Death to the killers, bringing light to life.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

Army life don't agree with me.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light