Quotes About Resistance

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."

Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.

The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

"Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."

Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.