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The world is at stake, and I am going to sit here and eat breakfast!" I exclaimed and resisted him.
— Claudia Caren
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ...
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally.
— Marlee Matlin
If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.
— Alexei Maxim Russell
GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.
— Hugh MacLeod
I am so fortunate to be red! I'm fiery. I'm strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted.
— Orhan Pamuk
They seized him, and of all the acts of will in a life famed for them, it was by far the greatest that he resisted them not.
— Brent Weeks
I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.
— Jacques De Lacretelle
Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own - then,
— Thomas Hardy
I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.
— Devon Monk
Your lifeline ... oh, the burning stick. Right. Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!
— Rick Riordan
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
— Stephen Ambrose
Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.
— E. M. Forster
The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.
— Kip S. Thorne
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
— George H. W. Bush
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
— George Washington
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
— Anthony Head
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
— Sophie Swetchine
Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.
— Bryan Burrough
Even while I resisted, and long before I surrendered, God was working in my life - guiding me, protecting me, and training me.
— Tammy L. Gray
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
— Jacob M. Appel
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I resisted being an actor for some time.
— Henry Hopper
When we were done, her purple lipstick was all smeared and I felt like giving her a right hook to the temple. I resisted.
— Nate Flexer
Still, I strongly resisted the idea of offering up my past in a book, a past that left me feeling exposed, even slightly ashamed.
— Barack Obama
Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down
— Edith Wharton
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas. - Victor Hugo
— John C. Maxwell
Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.
— Maggie Stiefvater
For it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
— Louisa May Alcott
I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.
— Malcolm Lowry
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
— Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint
— Joe Armstrong
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
— Rudyard Kipling
The pastoral itch to be where "the action is" should be resisted.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Have a few beers?" Gabe resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "One, since part of the reason for you to
— Vivian Arend
Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.
— Michael Learned
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
— Ronald Reagan
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
— James Branch Cabell
I'm Crusty, he said, with a tartar-yellow smile.I resisted the urge to say, Yes, you are. — Rick Riordan
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
— Greg Egan
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
— Thomas Jefferson
Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.
— Graham Hancock
Obstacles must be overcome.Problems must be solved.
Doubt must be resisted.
Fear must be defeated. — Matshona Dhliwayo
If I'd known it would be that good, I might not have resisted for so long.
— Delilah S. Dawson
The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
A river shaped her,smoothed her with sand and battered
her against the shore, and she
resisted, she is still here. — Margaret Atwood
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..
— Tina St. John
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
— Richard M. Nixon
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
— Thomas A Kempis
I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them.
— Andrew Solomon
She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey
— Kayti Nika Raet
Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
— Marguerite Duras
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
— Augustine Of Hippo
I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.
— George Meyer
New ideas are always resisted.
— Henning Mankell
For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
— Dale Spender
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
— Tom Peters
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— Saint Augustine
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
— John Ford
This is why I resisted loving you. I knew it would kill me to be away from you. I just ... I don't know if I can do it after ...
— Kahlen Aymes
A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.
— Arthur W. Pink
What I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attractionwhich I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me — Charles Dickens
I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.
— Alana Stewart
Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective ... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
— Henry Charles Carey
