Quotes About Resistance

Children who are grieving the loss of a former attachment, or are displaying ambivalence or resistance toward their adoptive parents, do not suddenly bond. Attachment doesn't just happen; it grows. How quickly depends on a number of factors, including the number and quality of prior attachments; parenting strategies; age; and the severity of pre-placement neglect or other forms of abuse. Any prognosis is at best an educated guess.

I knew, I knew, but I tried to close the door on my knowing.

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!

and with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

God's people need to invade the enemy's camp with all diligence, confidence, and assurance. We can take back everything Satan has stolen from us and our households. It doesn't belong to the devil. He is a thief, and we demand that he give it all back now!

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.' And I will answer: 'Yes.

Prussian people who converted their whole male population into an army and their country into an arsenal, and with one voice, and animated by one heart, refused longer to bear the degradation put upon them by their King.

Russians suspected of liberal tendencies were watched, and upon the slightest pretext sent to Siberia,

Resistance indicates a perceived threat to a largely unconscious belief system, one that has no doubt successfully guided the organization in the past.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Soon madness has worn you down. It's easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you're worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

Reading is an act of contemplation . . . an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction . . . it returns us to a reckoning with time.2 —David Ulin

Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain, dubbed USA300–0114. For a bacterium that usually was extraordinarily diverse, this was unheard-of.11

If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.

Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.

Cómo podía resistir así, ella que estaba desarmada? Yo no me veía abandonándola. Ella me aceptaba tal como era. Me había aceptado cargado de demonios, más angustiosos unos que los otros. Los había enganchado a los suyos y avanzaba. No me veía haciéndole lo que yo había sufrido que me hiciesen.

Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

In reality, the scenario I've just described could never happen. Perceived effort is essentially the body's resistance to the mind's will. The fitter an athlete becomes, the less resistance the body puts up. Therefore increased physical capacity is always felt.

Painted on shirts went over so well I thought, why not painted on pants? Well, the big shot manager at Krusty Burger didn't agree!

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

We can move against the current of life, and forever meet resistance, or we can let our thoughts flow, and become the free uncertain river.