He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.
Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
Without love you can only resist, without feeling you can't exist.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.
And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage. '
You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.
Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.
The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.