Quotes About Resistance

Yo había quedado reducido a pasmarote, a merced de aquella criatura cuyas palabras y cuyos encantos no tenía yo modo, ni ganas, de resistir.

El único pecado que no se perdona en España es el de no tomar bando y resistirse a unirse a un rebaño u otro

These new Francoists are as tight as two coats of paint.

Sinto a falta de um vilão.A maioria de nós,quer tenhamos consciência disso,quer não,defini-se por oposição a alguma coisa ou a alguém.É mais fácil reagir do que agir,por assim dizer.

Time played on the opposite team.

to show how constructions of manhood and of womanhood can function to subvert the capacity to resist injustice in its many and intersectional forms.

Sometimes, your child may function well, and other times, she will resist going to school, spill her milk, and fall. Expect inconsistency. When she stumbles, try to be understanding. Break challenges into small pieces. Encourage her to achieve one goal at a time to feel the satisfaction of a series of little successes. Remember that you have had years of experience in learning to deal with the world, and that the child has not.

Mandatory, and soon despised, dancing sessions were implemented under this same improving philosophy.

Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. "There.

Recognize defensiveness as an attempt to keep new insights from entering your mental field.

Wow, Callie! I bet Finn could pick you up. Callie could feel the heat coming up the back of her neck, but she couldn't stop it. Soldiers didn't blush. They were mean and tough and could take out snakes, spiders, and even enemy combatants. But a visual of her hanging over Finn's back with her butt so close to his lips that he could kiss it --- well, hell's belles, that would make the devil himself blush.

But the screws had been there since the sixth day of creation and wouldn't budge. I leaned into

The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. 'Daughter

What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.

told someone that the slave had disappeared so quickly that he "must have gone on an underground road." Allegedly this was the origin of the nickname Underground Railroad.1

De tous les arts, seul le cinéma resta jusqu'à la fin du nazisme un refuge possible pour les Noirs.

exasperated. 'That's the last thing I'd do. If you don't

The first day of the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don't feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn't bothered.

Es así la vida normal? Lo pregunto porque estoy acostumbrada al dramatismo. Por lo general las cosas se resisten a salir como quiero. Estoy acostumbrada a luchar, quejarme y protestar para conseguir cosas que no son exactamente lo que quiero, pero que cubren el expediente.

If you think I'm going to let you take over my life, you're wrong.

Consider this. The essence of war is to kill your enemy and not get killed yourself.

The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn't make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and an artist draws what he sees and feels and thinks. But they tried to confiscate the drawings anyway and

But there's a juicy artery in your groin, he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. Don't you talk dirty, I told him. I won't listen to that.

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.