Quotes About Resistance

How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one?

When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.

The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.

The bird that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing, they say,' grumbled Tackleton.

As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled

Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge— who leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.

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I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

Changeless and hopeless, the tumbrils roll along.

His wife explained that she had merely "asked a blessing." "Don't do it!" said Mr. Cruncher looking about, as if he rather expected to see the loaf disappear under the efficacy of his wife's petitions. "I ain't a going to be blest out of house and home. I won't have my wittles blest off my table. Keep still!

The procrastination, the laziness, the halfhearted attempts, the going through the motions—all indicate that the old story isn't motivating you anymore. What once made sense, makes sense no longer. You are beginning to withdraw from that world. Society does its best to persuade you to resist that withdrawal, which, when resisted, is called depression.

The hippies saw it and lived it for a few shining moments, but the old stories were too strong. Instead of the hippies pulling us all into a new world, we dragged them back into ours. The

When you feel the lure of sin, conquer it by seeking the Savior. It won't be easy, and sometimes deliverance will take time. But always seek to honor Him and He will certainly teach you how to overcome.

The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass of men endure the persecution of a few masters and the despotism of prejudices without offering the slightest resistance... their passions are too weak to permit them to derive audacity from despair.

The pretence of resistance to monopoly would always serve them, as it had served them before, as a plausible and popular cry.

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Herman Melville, "Bartleby"

Ich will doch sehen, wer mich hält, - wer mich zwingt, - wer der Mensch ist, der einen Menschen zwingen kann.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."