Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.
The only way to resist colonialism is through education.
Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me. " Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe. " When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there. . . lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.