Quotes About Resistance

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Kaže se, raja se odmetnula, raja je neposlušna i nevaljala. Jeste. Ali treba znati da raja ne diše svojom dušom, nego sluša dah gospodara. To vi dobro znate. Uvijek se gospoda prvo iskvare, a raja samo prihvati. A kad se jednom raja otme i pohasi, idi slobodno pa traži drugu, jer od te nema više ništa.

teški su zli gospodari, ali su još teže njihove nasilne i drske sluge i ?ankolizi.

When you are starting your life over, with a new sense of self, who you once were is going to challenge you. Who you once were is going to dangle old carrots, old wounds and issues, in front of your face. When that happens, you will be tempted to revert to old feelings, old patterns of thought, and old patterns of behavior.

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

If we cannot win, we can at least deprive them of the victory.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move'.

And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters. The waters, he said, were not receptive. If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

That's a lot of vegetables. It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl... He lifted the silver lid on another plate, revealed a small pizza, with pepperoni arranged into a smiley face. She tried to give him a stony stare, but the laugh won out. You think you're cute, don't you, pal? Adorable. In this case, you can have adorable. Ow! She managed the stony stare when he slapped her hand away from the pizza. Vegetables first.

She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [...] She reached down [...] and chose a Galaxy bar [...] I'm going home. You didn't pay for that, Francois shouted after her. Fuck you, Frank, she shouted back and kept going.

Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.

Roarke, you've got to know I've got some bad stuff inside. It's like a virus that sneaks around the system, pops out when your resistance is low. I'm not a good bet. - Eve Dallas I like long odds. He lifted her hand, kissed it. Why don't we see it through? Find out if we can both win. - Roarke

Get ready to do just that." Eve grabbed her coat. "Oh my God." Reo made a hum of almost sexual pleasure. "Really?" Keeping some distance, Eve shrugged into the coat. "Seriously, sex noises over a coat?" "It's … delicious." "Don't lick it. Once," Eve said, knowing damn well she wouldn't get past Reo without it. "You can touch it, but just once.

And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place.

Damn it, Roarke, he's going to come back and poke at me, and try to make me drink one of his weird brews. I just need a hot shower. Let me up. Have a heart." "I do, and it's yours.