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

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

Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe. — Monica Furlong

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

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. — Beverly Daniel Tatum

You can't keep resisting my irresistibleness, Natara Stone. You'll give in eventually, and I won't quit until you do. — Kelsey Ketch

Evolution is necessary for ones progress ... . resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey. — Jon Scott

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? — Vicesimus Knox

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them. — Henry David Thoreau

Avoiding temptation is much easier than resisting it. — Elle Meyer

With practice, you will find that not resisting holds the secret to many spiritual experiences, including the ability to love. — Deepak Chopra

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step. — Henry Cloud

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

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. — John McWhorter

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

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering, — Pema Chodron

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

Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery. — Dan Ariely

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering. — Pema Chodron

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more. — Mae West

Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it. — D. Todd Christofferson

Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to. — A.J. Sheppard

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

I'm tired of resisting love. Love will never be safe, but we've seen the alternative. — Thea Hillman

All stress comes from resisting what is. — Oprah Winfrey

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. — Morley Safer

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Just because I'm resisting the wine doesn't mean I can't appreciate the bouquet. — Stephenie Meyer

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. — Rumi

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality - whatever it may be. — Hannah Arendt

Appreciate life instead of resisting it. — Judy Tatelbaum

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference. — Gregory Maguire

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering. — Lee L Jampolsky

Quite the opposite, Miss Bennet; I have been resisting a temptation almost since my first arrival in Hertfordshire. — Pat Santarsiero

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

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. — Rosa Parks

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

You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Resisting is worth doing. — Veronica Roth

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

Resisting tyranny is obeying God — Thomas Jefferson

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully. — Richard Appignanesi

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

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

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live. — Barbara Delinsky

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice. — Lysander Spooner

People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off. — Paul Gibbons

Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it;
behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day. — Thomas Merton

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

We understand nature by resisting it. — Gaston Bachelard

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor

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

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. — Rick Warren

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem. — Said Seyam

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad. — Norman O. Brown

Suffering is not caused by pain but by resisting pain. — Anonymous

I had no way of knowing that resisting grief also meant resisting life. — J.L. Mac

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

resisting was only going to accentuate how weak my position really was. I stopped fighting, as there was no need to broadcast it. — Donna Augustine

If you think girls are supposed to object to sex until they find themselves incapable of resisting your magic penis, fuck you. — Anna Kendrick

I was as good as resisting Griff Shipley as Homer Simpson was at resisting a donut. — Sarina Bowen

A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life ... . — Paulo Coelho

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

Resisting premature abstraction is as important as abstraction itself. — Robert C. Martin

The double-teaming paid off; there was no resisting the power of a Stark-Romanoff alliance for long. — Margaret Stohl

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

the ladies, young or old. There is no resisting a cockade, — Jane Austen

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want. — Larry Ellison

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing. — Joyce Meyer

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

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

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. — Muqtada Al Sadr

If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too. — Becca Fitzpatrick

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having. — Robin S. Sharma

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth. — Robin Sharma

I was once arrested for resisting arrest. — Steven Wright

Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation. We occasionally flip the switch, but most of the time we settle for shadows. — Max Lucado

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life. — Gary Zukav

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. — Franz Kafka

The blessings of resisting temptation far outweigh the costs of giving into one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Neale Donald Walsch

There are basically two movements of consciousness: love and fear. Love is allowing what is, and fear is resisting it. — Nirmala

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. — Zig Ziglar

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. — Deepak Chopra

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job. — Gary Rohrmayer

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. — Swami Vivekananda

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening. — Jon Scott

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life. — Phil McGraw

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but — William Gurnall

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing. — Penney Peirce

Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate. — Liane Moriarty

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

Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it. — Guillermo Del Toro

There will be a ten percent surcharge for resisting arrest, — Lois McMaster Bujold

The era of resisting big government is never over. — Paul Gigot

The person who is constantly anxious is the person who is resisting the flip-flopability of things. — Alan W. Watts

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