179 Resist Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun. Jessica De Gouw

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own. Joanna Newsom

Own Everything Seeing Songs Like Well Instrumentation Because Felt How Yeah Up Did Just Wanted Interested Urge Resist

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. Joanna Scott

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We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil. John R. Allen

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A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative. John Sarbanes

Fight Money Country Big Nothing Everyday Back Possible Must Citizens About More More And More Imperative Taking Calls Conclusion Big Money Reform Behalf American Done Hold Shots Convinced Cynicism Deep Washington Resist

I remember how difficult it was to resist the food served on the sets of a movie directed by Abbas and Mustan. They love food, and I could not resist digging into their dabba for some wonderful meals. Kapil Sharma

Love Food Wonderful Remember Difficult Sets Digging Some Directed Could How Movie Meals Served Resist

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances. Karl Abraham

Will Oppose Others Unknown Way Circumstances Easily Seduction Follow Temptation Observed Invitation React Him Another Opposite Yield Child Person Same Any Children Whereas Anyone Psychology Interested Who Hardly Resist Resistance

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity. Keith Hernandez

Natural Tendency Conformity Natural Tendency Resist

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. Kenneth Branagh

Love Language Fire Way Visceral Would Some Shakespeare More Through Part Feel Freer Am Cultural Irish Than Repository Current Being Mean Planet Shot English Why Utterly Elite Resist British

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back. Larry Brown

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I don't know how to thank all the people listening to our music. It's so amazing to come home to my friends who resist conformity, because they're so happy that I've made it. Lukas Forchhammer

Music Home Happy People Amazing Listening Made Our Our Music Come Know Because How Friends Thank Conformity Who Resist

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. Lysander Spooner

Government People Judge Those Laws Absolute Between Legally Jury Disobey Speaking Who Right Resist Slaves

As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book. M. J. Rose

After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. Ma Jian

Politics Freedom Writing Freedom Of Speech Publish Hong Kong Philosophy Only Restrictions Massacre Felt Kong Continue Up Offices Authors Fiction After China Placed Works Company Actively Compelled Publishing Publishing Company Resist Set Speech

I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out. Margo Jefferson

Best Important Year Those Guilty Critic Out Must About Beat Most Felt Years Left Often Lists Resist

Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps. Mark Goulston

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it. Martin Jacques

Alien Too State Virtually Saw Finally Weak Borders Only Civilisation Over Period Powers Within Arrangement Existed Western Itself Very China Century Whole Roughly Millennia Present Early Resist Two

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. Michel Gondry

People Sometimes Way Mainstream Very Original Resist

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls. Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. Monica Lewinsky

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