Quotes About Resistance

My brain said no. But my heart!

She had resisted returning there because to return to one's hometown felt like surrender.

At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

She had resisted returning there [to Los Angeles, the city of her birth] because to return to one's home town felt like surrender.

Maybe a bit long but basically average." "Do you think you should go in for a checkup?" "No," A.J. says. "You know I've had these since I was a chive.

You'll meet someone. I did." "Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new." He

Very well, then," Alice said barely audibly. "I will be the one to stay." With a tempestuous stare, she turned to him so suddenly that he hardly managed to hide his incredulity. "But if you lay a hand on me against my will, I will not hesitate to have you arrested and I 'shall' press charges against you. If it is scandal that you crave, my lord, you shall have it.

All of us had been trained to take less than her share at the table, and some of us even hated and feared each other because that's what pressure from above teaches and forces and underclass to do.

No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

When you wade, you're kind of bogged down. You can't walk, or run; you're not swimming; you're kind of fighting the water all the time.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

E é justo? E é possível que uma coisa tão pequena como uma pistola ou uma navalha possa dar cabo de um homem, que é um touro? Nao vou me calar nunca. Os meses passam e o desespero me perfura os olhos e pica até nas pontas do cabelo.

You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

With every crisis, authority moves to the center, and stays there. And as bureaucracy grows stronger, those who might resist it grow weaker.

When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.

The first part of this drill is to resist the temptation to label other people as stupid because of their "stupid" activities or assertions. Most people aren't stupid. They have somehow gotten captured by a flawed belief. The second part of the drill is to turn into a detective and try to find this flawed belief. The third part is to devise a way to help the other person discover how to replace the belief.

One of Satan's cleverest attacks is getting us to pour our time and energy into people who resent the grace we share and who will never change, keeping us from spending time with and focusing on others whom we can love and serve.

In a mixed egalitarian/complimentarian marriage, both the husband and wife will likely treat each other according to their perceived sense of marital duties, but those duties won't be received as such. They'll be resented....people who disagree on this issue can still worship the same God, but it will be difficult for them to raise the same kids or operate the same household.

Some athletes resist fear, or some try to deny fear. Others attempt to conquer it. Athletes should accept fear and recognize it as the body's way of telling them to become energized. Unmask your fears and face them down. Examine them. "Many times when fear starts to hit me, my best chance of overcoming it lies in facing it squarely and examining it rationally,

No man resists me: literally no one.

siempre que quieras ir a casa. J está a la puerta del asilo, llamándote para que salgas y te unas a él, y tú sigues intentando arrastrarle para que vuelva a entrar

If what you offer to others is not sensitive, if it does not support and nourish, if it does not empower but disempowers them, it will be met with resistance at some level, and that resistance will be the counterpart of your energy that seeks to disempower, or to control.

We understand nature by resisting it.