#resist

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. ↗

— Charles Atlas

#best #body #own #resistance #safest

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#ask #give #government #more #much

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. ↗

— John Dewey

#beliefs #least #made #mental #old

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. ↗

— Ernest Lehman

#irresistible #love #man #more #nothing

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#find #harming #integrity #least #live

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#choice #choices #deliberate #enough #equals

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#always #anyone #anything #butcher #common

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#act #also #buying #certain #earning

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I. ↗

— Hannah Senesh

#defiance #determination #hope #hope-and-despair #inspiration