#resist

Is there anything else you haven't told me?" My head spun. So much had happened and we still needed to stop a powerful magician. Death was a real possibility. I needed Valek to know how I felt. "I love you" Valek wrapped me in his arms. "My love has been yours since the fire festival. If those goons had killed you, I knew then that I would never be the same. I didn't want or expect this. But I couldn't resist you. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#feelings #love #resist #truth #death

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist. ↗

— Raoul Walsh

#good #hard #least #line #many

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#becomes #courtesy #irresistible #latter #restraint

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#experience #frequently #her #more #proof

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#been #close #doors #large #resist

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down. ↗

— David McNally

#down #enemy #get #how #knocked

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#losing #never #resist #southerners

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#away #black #blacks #colleges #doing

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

— Jack Nicklaus

#dirt #experience #found #i #less