Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
George Will
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
William Arthur Ward
Helen Rowland
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Albert Einstein
All authors
Today's birthdays
1778 - William Hazlitt
1954 - Anne Lamott
1936 - John Madden
1930 - Dolores Huerta
1882 - Frances Perkins
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Cartoonist
Mathematician
Inventor
Artist
Psychologist
President
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Resistant Quotes
Resistant Quotes
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
Nature
Stupidity
Nothing
Something
Attacks
Unshakable
Without
Itself
Breaking
Against
Granite
Hard
Resistant
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
Gordon W. Allport
Simple
Unlike
Evidence
Would
Misconception
Prejudice
Actively
Resistant
Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.
Molly Ivins
Time
Become
Interstate
Else
Some
Charming
Highways
Weirdly
Likely
Comic
Least
Still
Texas
Replica
Same
Same Time
Place
Forms
Awful
Resistant
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Patti Smith
Labels
Artists
Resistant
Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.
Amy Sedaris
Me
Learning
Somebody
Something
Finish
Like
Know
Because
How
Just
Asking
Resistant
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.
Anthony Fauci
Health
Fight
Problem
Challenge
Worse
Ongoing
Over
New
Like
Health Problem
Continue
Perpetual
Antibiotics
Very
Fix
Pipeline
Getting
Public
Us
Public Health
Serious
Resistance
Resistant
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
Ben Whishaw
Gone
Changing
System
Seem
Very
Regimes
Workout
Resistant
My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.
Cecily Strong
Love
Myself
Comedy
Try
First
Drama
Considered
Fell
Instructor
Course
Because
Serious
Actor
Suggested
Resistant
Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.
Charles Kennedy
Understanding
John
Remained
Towards
Major
Like
She
Understand
Understood
Wake
Thatcher
Convinced
Notion
Why
Her
Resistant
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Dean Ornish
Time
Good
Prevail
Science
Good Ideas
Over
New
Ideas
Although
New Ideas
Scientists
Often
Anyone
Process
Theories
Resistant
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
Gary Wolf
Business
Free
Scale
Gigantic
Totally
Only
Also
Mostly
Cooperation
Resistant
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Gene Robinson
Change
Slow
Churches
Institutions
Historically
Any
Moves
Speaking
Sudden
Resistant
I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.
Glen Duncan
Made
Increasing
Visiting
India
Anecdotal
Horror
Idea
Absurdity
Excluded
Returned
Felt
Friends
Place
Epiphany
Toilet
Standard
England
Even
Resistant
Position
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler
War
Great
Technology
Architecture
World
Made
Strides
Earthquake
Characteristics
Only
Allowing
Advanced
Advanced Technology
Tall
Buildings
Traditional
Were
Modern
After
Japanese
Infusing
Expressing
Resistant
World War
World War II
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
Harry Seidler
Summer
Earth
Earthquakes
Resulted
Lightweight
Well
Frequent
Buildings
Climate
Timber
Off
Japan
Warm
Ground
Raised
Resistant
You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
Irina Shayk
You
People
Made
Cold
Russian
Russian People
Know
Very
Snow
Break
Resistant
Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.
Johnny Flynn
Me
Made
Become
More
He
Weirdly
Attractive
Always
Times
Quite
Just
Want
Much
Many
Dad
Actor
Resistant
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
Kenneth Lonergan
Medium
Bit
Television
TV
Still
Up
Going
Grew
Movies
Them
Watching
Resistant
I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
Lynn Nottage
Art
Become
Think
Once
Folks
Encounter
Reflects
Them
Really
Engaging
Less
Who
Resistant
The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your iPhone, no matter how swarmy, corrupt, or dangerous you are, is supposedly safe. That's also the proposition of Panamanian banking laws.
Michael Wolff
Government
You
Dangerous
Matter
Build
System
Corrupt
Per
Data
Laws
Imperative
Proposition
Supposedly
Safe
Also
How
iPhone
Any
Banking
Cent
Your
Warrant
Apple
Resistant
There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.
Miriam Toews
Family
People
Care
Virus
Kind
Seems
Like
Built
Any
Just
Regardless
Help
Who
Medication
Resistant
Suicidal
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.
Moby
You
Change
People
Guitar
Seriously
First
Took
Back
No-One
Rock
Always
Go
Rock-N-Roll
Been
Roll
Frowned
Century
Started
Playing
Resistant
I was resistant to the Internet. I was afraid of it.
Nathan Englander
Internet
Afraid
Resistant
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.
Nick Cave
Life
Work
Me
You
Walk
Way
Out
Hours
Line
Been
Done
Just
Where
Work Out
Wash
Things
Resistant
Two
When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, 'Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?' I was very resistant to leaving my friends.
Nicola Walker
Me
You
Husband
First
Live
Thinking
Slightly
Bought
Inviting
Got
Bedrooms
Leaving
Friends
Very
Flat
Little
Your
Sarah
Why
Resistant
Two
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
Nina Fedoroff
Needs
Become
Weeds
Multiple
Resistant
Load more quotes
No more resistant quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Adopted
Brand
Acknowledgement
Biography