#resist

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

— Jean Piaget

#accommodations #acquisition #always #assimilation #becomes

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#bit #days #elevator #eleventh #floor

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#blind #considered #itself #man #resistance

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do. ↗

— George Linnaeus Banks

#cause #distance #future #good #i

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ↗

— Robert Conklin

#creates #feeling #into #more #resistance

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#more #often #ones #resistant #than

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#drained #empire #great #idlers #into

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#genius #idea #resist