Top 311 Resisting Quotes & Sayings

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real-whatever it is you are resisting." "Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or every will live. You are all meesengers. Every one of you. You are carrying a message to life about life every day. Every hour. Every moment.

Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Appreciate life instead of resisting it.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

We understand nature by resisting it.

Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet.

I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years.

The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized.

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Resisting is worth doing.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.