Quotes Tagged "resist"

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor.

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

I can resist everything except temptation.

My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.