Quotes about Resistance
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
- Euripides
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
- Anonymous
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
- Anonymous
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
- Samuel Johnson
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- St. Augustine
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.
- John Ortberg
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.
- Paulo Coelho
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
- Joseph Heller
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
- Pablo Picasso
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
- JC Ryle
Surrender is not a Ranger word. Fine. Let the battle begin.
- Susan May Warren