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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
— William Throsby Bridges
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
— William Beveridge
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
— Daniel H. Wilson
it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.
— Russell Banks
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
— Philip K. Dick
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
— Robert Greene
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
— Elliott Abrams
Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.
— Patrick White
When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
— Oscar Wilde
Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fallupwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
— Heather King
The truth resists simplicity.
— John Green
Even on the saddest nightin times of servitude
there is always someone who resists
there is always someone who says no. — Manuel Alegre
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mindMore just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind. — George Crabbe
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
— William Blake
The world resists, when you break its rules.
— Victoria Schwab
Truth resists simplicity.
— John Green
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
— Rem Koolhaas
Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.
— Tony Campolo
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
— Isabel Allende
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
— Irving Stone
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
Reality is what resists.
— Bruno Latour
Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
— Walter Benjamin
The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
— D.H. Lawrence
Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.
— William Sloane Coffin
What resists, persists.
— Laozi
The world resists me and I resist the world.
— John Gardner
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
— Jacques Lacan
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
— W. Edwards Deming
Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Sometimes we're all trying to purge something. And what we're trying to purge resists our purging.
— Leslie Jamison
So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
— Theophile Gautier
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni
The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
— Bernard Beckett
Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us ... not simply the official existence.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
— Lauren Oliver
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
— Alan Cohen
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
— Amy Hempel
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
— Nuno Oliveira