Resistance Quotes

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Unity and resistance is a strong American trait.

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

Effort supposes resistance.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

So much of the pain we feel is based on resistance to what we can't change. Allowing yourself to let go and feel how you feel in the moment is a blissful thing.

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

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.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!