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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. — Chauncey Wright

Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go. — Debasish Mridha

Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them. — Gretchen Rubin

Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability. — T.F. Hodge

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it. — Randy Alcorn

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. — Stephen Daldry

But I find myself unable to resist the temptation. The same way you can't resist watching me whenever we're out. So territorial. — Sarah J. Maas

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. — Hermann Hesse

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson

Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim. — James C. Dobson

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. — Sydney Thompson Dobell

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe.
To resist it is to resist the universe.
Let go and flow. — Deepak Chopra

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers. — Martin Luther King Jr.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. — Anne Rice

Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist. — Brent Hartinger

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. — Taylor Caldwell

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. — James Mill

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story. — Rob Bell

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist. — Charles Bukowski

I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness. — Daniel Klein

It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist. — Joanna Lumley

The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most. — Robert Anthony

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. — Anais Nin

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that. — Kate Beckinsale

It's getting harder," his breath caressed my cheek.
"What is?" I asked.
"To resist you," his fingers flexed against me. — Micalea Smeltzer

If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive. — Liezi

When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy. — Joe Vitale

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. — Miranda July

To resist the urge to kick my grandma I grabbed a roll, ripped it in half, and proceeded to slather it with butter. — Micalea Smeltzer

Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't be able to resist. — Red Phoenix

You'll all just have to accept that Wyatt Hammer kisses me like it's the only thing he wants to do in the whole world, and I couldn't resist him. — Lauren Blakely

You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist.
She snarled. Heh. — Ilona Andrews

It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. — Paula Hawkins

You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and you're just a beautiful mistake. — One Direction

Most TV programs are aimed at destruction. We need to resist this by establishing the truth of God on air. — Sunday Adelaja

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy. — Judith Lynne Hanna

To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness. — Jennifer Lane

Temptation is impossible for me to resist ... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. — Tom Sizemore

It's so tempting to resist a little gift
when you're expecting the otherwise. — Toba Beta

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist. — Raoul Walsh

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. — J.M. Coetzee

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment. — Carl Jung

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. — Jackie Gleason

I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges. — Sara Quin

Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate. — Christopher Moore

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression. — James Robison

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that. — Vladimir Putin

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong. — Walter Isaacson

Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands! — Katherine McNamara

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word. — Joyce Meyer

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life — Joyce Carol Oates

Fresh popcorn is near impossible to resist, second only to fresh doughnuts. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say? — George Michael

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist. — Henry A. Kissinger

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation. — Miles Anthony Smith

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want. — Wayne Dyer

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up! — Israelmore Ayivor

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go. — Marianne Williamson

(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.) — Tim Kreider

I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects. — Meghan Daum

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. — Margaret Drabble

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. — Aleister Crowley

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Lany couldn't resist his appearance and stared at him from head to toe. — Pet Torres

When you love, especially with your heart, it comes upon you so fast, you don't have time to resist. — Jennifer Ashley

To those who accept everything, happiness. To those who resist everything, glory. — Mizuo Shinonome

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. — Gustave Flaubert

Snarl had infiltrated my subconscious. The dream was obviously a sign: he was too enticing to resist. — Rachel Cohn

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist. — Primo Levi

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist. — Libby Schmais

As for the sport, even there Kasparov couldn't resist a sideswipe. Most of the gold in Sochi will go to Switzerland, but into secret bank accounts. — Anonymous

Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. — Bryant McGill

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power. — Samuel Johnson

I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines. — M. Leighton

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within? — Philippa Gregory

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo ... — Jennifer James

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia. — Thomas M. Disch

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. — Ludwig Von Mises

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it. — Aaron Sorkin

I asked him if he wanted to play music but he refused. He said that the only thing he wanted to hear was the pleasure of my moans. — Shanora Williams

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil. — Nazr Mohammed

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. — Stanley Schmidt

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys. — J.M. Barrie

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. — Ovid

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. — Yoshimi Ishikawa

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free. — Mike Gayle

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably. — David Platt

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our minds. — Wyatt Tee Walker

To resist is to break free.
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. — Stewart Alsop

I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things. — Lindsey Vonn

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. — Seth Godin