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"I can resist anything but temptation." »Oscar Wilde
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"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." »Leonardo da Vinci
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"If you have live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not resist it." »The Talmud
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"If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength." »La Rochefoucauld
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." »Mae West
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"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him." »Russell Baker
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." »Yoshimi Ishikawa
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"I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly." »Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist." »Steward Alsop
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"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas." »S.J. Perelman
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"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand Yeah." »Dr. Arthur Kellerman
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." »Oscar Wilde
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"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love." »Karl von Bonstetten
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"If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses." »Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
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"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change." »Socrates
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"Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them." »John Locke
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." »Hermann Hesse
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""Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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