Resisting Quotes

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

We understand nature by resisting it.

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

I'm not doing Bond.

In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.

Saying no to a project is not easy. I'm always under the impression that I might end up upsetting the director or producer of a film.

I've never declined to do an interview.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Resisting is worth doing.

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.