#resist

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ↗

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

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ↗

— John Calvin

#avoid #god #great #him #mighty

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

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. ↗

— Otto Dix

#beginning #brought #cause #did #dreadful

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

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

— Jennifer Garner

#going #had #heart #i #knew

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. ↗

— John Hay

#him #rarely #resists #seen #tyranny

Paralyze resistance with persistence. ↗

— Woody Hayes

#persistence #resistance

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. ↗