Resistance Quotes - Page 17

• If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Events, May, Kind

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

  Carice van Houten

  Character, Able, Too Much

  "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

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• The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Different, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

  Ice Cube

  Laughing, Black, Together

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Years, Lasts, Last Year

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

  Jessa Crispin

  Talking, People, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fighting, Winning, Years

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Ideas, Soldier

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.

  Ron Rosedale

  Disease, Wellness, Aging

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• Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. This is what the Israeli government asserts when claiming that Hamas and IS are the exact same thing. By saying so, the historical resistance [against the Israeli occupation] is viewed as unlawful, called extremism and terrorism.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Government, Historical

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."

  Vandana Shiva

  Fun, Creativity, Mean

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Rights, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

  Coco Chanel

  Warrior, Long, Leaving

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

  Jeff Sessions

  Determination, Rights, White

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and misunderstanding. I look at each of these experiences as an opportunity to educate and make the path potentially less daunting for anyone else that follows in my footsteps.

  Joanna Lohman

  Opportunity, Self, Levels

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• We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Effort, Desire, Our Actions

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• In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

  Brenda Strong

  Mind, Beginners, Fundamentals

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• I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

  Joanna Lohman

  Self, Levels, Realizing

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• Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Addiction, Toxic

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• Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.

  Ella Baker

  Kings, Independent, Class

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Three, Lasts

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• I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Grace, Dollars

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Slave, Obedience, Distinction

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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• So much of the pain we feel is based on resistance to what we can't change. Allowing yourself to let go and feel how you feel in the moment is a blissful thing.

  Janine and The Mixtape

  Letting Go, Pain, How You Feel

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