#resist

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#find #honesty #humor #i #irresistible

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#america #into #left #must #once

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#dirt #experience #found #i #less

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

— Sigrid Undset

#i #into #myself #resistance #rolled

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#accommodations #acquisition #always #assimilation #becomes

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#bit #days #elevator #eleventh #floor

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#blind #considered #itself #man #resistance

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows