Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.
Two great virtues. . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.
Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true. But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who? Well, if you ask me, I'm doing much worse than before, With the welfare cuts, I don't eat no more. So if I did wanna go out, I couldn't go nowhere, Cause I ate every last one of them reindeer. Rudolph first, I went down the list, I got so hungry, I just couldn't resist. I ate Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Dixon, Fried them up and then started to mix them. And before you knew it, they were all gone, I wonder what y'all gonna do about my reindeer song!
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth?
No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
If you insist, how can I resist?
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.
Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.