Resisting Quotes - Page 7

• It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Reading, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Desire, Machines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Country, New York, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

  Maurice Levy

  Population, Looks, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Gay, Lgbt, Instinct

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• A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I think that it's very important to resist that anxiety, to think of ways of resisting the constant inflow of negative feelings, not to become depoliticized as a result but to actually work actively to bring into being an optimistic future.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Optimistic, Thinking, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Police, Soldier, Prison

  Source: kalamu.com

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• Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Effort, Might, Worthwhile

  Source: progressive.org

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• I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any ability to control. That is contrary to the Plan of Salvation, and it is contrary to the justice and mercy of God. It's contrary to the whole teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which expresses the truth that by or through the power and mercy of Jesus Christ we will have the strength to do all things. That includes resisting temptation. That includes dealing with things that we're born with, including disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Teaching, Destiny

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Want, Moral

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

  Noam Chomsky

  Evil, Use, Facts

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• [I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, Panic, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  Selfish, People, Complaining

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Muse

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• I thought, I'm just going to give as much attention and curiosity to acting as I did to like making my coffee in the morning and see how that feels, rather than resisting it and angsting, and it turned out it felt great.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Morning, Coffee, Giving

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

  Kellyanne Conway

  People, Want, Shame

  "Donald Trump’s campaign manager has no clue what a press conference is". www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2016.

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• The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

  Bill McKibben

  Numbers, People, World

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• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Artist, Victory

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Procrastination

  Oliver Burkeman (2011). “HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Suffering, Way

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• I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Comfort, Asia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Uncles, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, Creating, Nihilism

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.46, Polity

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