Quotes About Resistance

It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Good girls would certainly not want to read about them.

Instinctively, he reached for his knife, fumbled fro fractions of a second with the thong of a purse, tore it loose. He stabbed frantically at the thing that surrounded him, tore the blade through cloth and hair and flesh. One part fell away, a languid, dead flailing of limbs and hair. The other gripped him, and even though he had stabbed a limb, would not release him.

He suppressed any thought of Ishtahar and tried to concentrate on the lithe, young body against him.

Fight symbol with symbol.

Everyone who knows about us wants to keep us apart from you. Your own people work against you! They want to contain you and control you.

Perhaps a measure of Waters of Life to clear his senses." "No," snarled Khaster. "Give me the Witch." "Khas…" "I'm all right. Give it to me.

I can't fulfill this destiny you all want for me so badly! I'm sick of hearing about it!

He felt as if massing forces pressed against the membrane of reality, and it would take all his strength to keep them from breaking through.

Sometimes feelings flow in directions we'd prefer they didn't.

Daniel had passed the point where he could tell himself to drop Owen Winter's friendship. He'd tried it in the past, but Owen only had to appear again and Daniel would be powerless.

There is nothing of yours I have not possessed. Soon, I shall even possess your body as I have taken those whom you love. You have no power to resist me.

All the time, I feel myself changing, pushing against a barrier or resistance, like a creature trying to break out of a shell. When the shell is broken, I will be different, and I have no way of knowing how.

As for myself, I had no desire whatsoever to visit the ruin in the Strangeling, but as I was so inextricably entwined in this convoluted web of dilemmas, I could only abandon any resistance; struggling would merely bind me more tightly within the sticky threads.

For the space of a moon, she fought her conscience, then, beneath the cloak of a moonless night, managed to flee the fortress.

He reached out and took Owen's hand in his own. There was resistance at first, then a returning pressure. Othman ignored any presence that might reside in the land and instead tasted the flow of energy from the boy's body. He sensed untapped strengths, and something that had a flavour of familiarity about it. Before Othman could investigate this further, Owen pulled away.

Is it possible to be born old? Because I certainly feel it sometimes. How can we hope to stand against unstoppable progress; how can we possibly win a war against the forces of science?

Honestly, some days it's like trying to get an angry ginger tom into a pair of Lycra cycling shorts.

Your grand plan sounds more like 1940s Germany to me. What exactly do you plan to do with people who refuse to register?

My dad was in the FBI when Hoover ordered the roundup of Asian Americans. He hated it and quit, joined the navy, and spent the next three years fighting in the South Pacific. Like so many, he didn't talk a lot about the war. But when it came to leaving the FBI, he told me once, "You can always say no.