Quotes About Resistance

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live?

threats of war can frighten into submission no one who is determined to resist. They can only place the threat-makers in a more isolated and confused position.

She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Stop that , I told my brain. Also, the wedding is tomorrow , said my brain. Get out of my head. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.

I tried to help you make better choices. You could have saved yourself. But you defied me at every step. You built your ship. You joined that foolish quest. Now you are trapped here, helpless, while the mortal world dies. Leo's hands burst into flame. He wanted to melt Gaea's sandy face to glass. Then he felt Calypso's hand on his shoulder. Gaea. Her voice was stern and steady. You are not welcome.

The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?

It's a good thing Jack was no longer in my hands, because I would've pulled a full-on Kylo Ren temper tantrum.

Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right. Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!

It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood ffor thousands of years, was saying back to her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? Give it a shot.

It wasn't the most rational move, but I was hungry. I was angry. I hated being taken advantage of, and I didn't particularly like bald eagles. The blade hit the bird's back and stuck there like superglue. I tried to pull it away, but it wouldn't move. My hands were grafted to the sword grip. "Okay, then," the eagle squawked, "we can play it that way." He took off through the food court at sixty miles an hour, dragging me along behind him.

DIE!" Gleeson Hedge dropped directly behind Orion, smacking his baseball bat over the giant's head so hard the Louisville Slugger cracked in half.

That's – that's not fair,' Sadie said, her voice trembling. 'Tempting me with destruction.

Tyrants are not easy to oppose or walk away from, especially when you depend on them for everything.

Kun døde fisk flyder med strømmen"—"Only dead fish swim with the current.")

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.

None of us are immune to temptation.

Frobisher should perhaps have realized that Lottie was a woman who was resistant to salvage. She had risen and fallen like the tide, but she seemed to favour the ebb rather than the flow.

that one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the

The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days.