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Tag Name "Resist" (632)

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Resist much, obey little.
Walt Whitman
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When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.
Emmet Fox
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I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
Amy Winehouse
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Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?
Ronald Reagan
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Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.
Chris Abani
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The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
Spencer W. Kimball
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
Alan Paton
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I have never been able to resist a book about books.
Anne Fadiman
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
Rudyard Kipling
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What you resist will persist what you befriend, you will transcend.
Robin Sharma
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Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!
James Melvin Washington
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.
Rachel Vincent
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At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.
Saddam Hussein
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Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.
Richard Hammond
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You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.
Ice Cube
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I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, My body is my own! I stand in admiration of women today who resist the fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!
Neal A. Maxwell
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.
Hermann Hesse
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'
Pope Pius XII
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If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
Maryrose Wood
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There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience.
Paul Martin
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
James Boswell
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Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
Albert Einstein
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