#resist

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.


Lao Tzu


#more #nothing #resist #softer #than

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.


Bono


#america #anything #britain #british #came

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.


Lord Byron


#feeling #i #i can #long #nature

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.


Hugh Jackman


#display #i #kid #little #little kid

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.


Mark Twain


#absence #fear #mastery #resistance

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.


John Blair


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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.


Benjamin Disraeli


#being #brought #conviction #even #existence

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.


Alan Bleasdale


#body #combine #exercise #heart #keep

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.


Levon Helm


#faster #go #hard #little #lord