Quotes About Resistance

In my opinion, as an engineer, a bridge is the most difficult thing you can do. You are not working in the direction of gravity but against it - so the problem opposes the solution.

Some people will never change.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

I feel like some things, you can't just force it.

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Time is an obstinate healer. It heals you against your will. And the younger you are, the faster you are cured, only to come out more immune.

Most women beg me to lick them, and I give it to you for free and you push me away, " he said with a fake pout on his face."You're crazy." I giggled"I'm the good kind of crazy, though.

Change is threatening to the status quo.

You challenged me from the very beginning and I tried to resist you, but I knew even then that I wasn't going to walk away without you by my side.

Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. "I can't, " he says.

Our connection was like a hidden force pulling us towards one another, and resisting it took a strength that I didn't know I could keep up for much longer.

Avoiding change is denying the path that leads to your spiritual growth.

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word, " he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

Know that I fought Trinity, with every part of me, I fought

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

And I'm trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there. All soft and inviting… and all I can think about is having them on my body.

But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and, without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet;—

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?

You put the fist in pacifist?

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book