#resist

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

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

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#great #iraq #iraqis #know #making

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. ↗

— James Mill

#exhortations #government #obstruct #operations #resist

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#losing #never #resist #southerners

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. ↗

— Evo Morales

#change things #encountering #i #i see #impossible

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#believe #i #non-violence #really #resistance

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

— Jean Piaget

#accommodations #acquisition #always #assimilation #becomes

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never. ↗

— Titus Livius

#comes #criminal #late #never #rashness

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#charming #comes #irresistible #journey #lips