#resist

You know me...I can't resist a good prank ↗

— Justin Bieber

#resistance

You are an irritating son of a bitch.” “Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#jean-claude #resistance

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness? ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love #resistance #strength #weakness #love

I pulled out too late with her,” he said simply. Vaughn nearly dropped his glass. “Oh, fuck. Brooke’s pregnant?” “Whoa, there. No. Nobody’s pregnant. I meant that I pulled out of the relationship too late. ↗

— Julie James

#cade-morgan #julie-james #love-irresistibly #love

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance ↗

— Michael Singer

#inspirational #resistance #spiritual-development #spirituality #inspirational

Persistence wears down resistance. ↗

— William J Federer

#logic #logical-thinking #persist #persistance #resist

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#beyond #catholic #catholic church #church #desirable

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. ↗

— Arrian

#arrows #astounded #attacked #charge #flash

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#allowed #any #binds #broken #chains

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#degree #hardship #high #high degree #need