Quotes About Resistance

The weight of the sea seemed to pass down on him. He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it. There would be no lying on beds of moss, no barbed words easily spoken, no falling down from too much wine, no dancing at all.

My body has acclimated, and now it craves what it should revile. An apt metaphor for other things.

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Some are good with pipes or paint. Some have skill in love. My talent is in making war. The only thing that has ever kept me awake was denying it

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

Words will not speak and the silence freezes into the images of the apartheid

it is precisely in these banalities that the unhomely stirs, as the violence of a racialized society falls most enduringly on the details of life: where you can sit, or not; how you can live, or not; what you can learn, or not; who you can love, or not.

"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."

J'ai été enterré sous les morts ; mais, maintenant, je suis enterré sous des vivants, sous des actes, sous des faits, sous la société tout entière, qui veut me faire rentrer sous terre!

Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy.

Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate.

Your mind resists death with all its might.

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Im about to go Andre the Giant, you a sell out but I aint buyin.

You know the cops dont like us, because they wanna rock just like us.

She wants to own me and I aint trying to fight it.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don't want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I'm Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. You're new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.

Did she not get it? He'd done everything but hit her on the head and drag her into a cave.

Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.

It was no use; they could move faster than he over the broken slabs of tilted stone. In a few moments, a detachment of Dwarves had moved around in front of him, blocking him off.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.