#resist

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#am #best #decisions #despite #difficult

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#aspects #being #challenge #continue #countryside

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#get #i #i can #only #resist

For a moment I am jealous: He has grown up here, fearless, happy. Perhaps he will never even know about the world on the other side of the fence, the real world. For him there will be no such thing. But there will also be no medicine for him when he is sick, and never enough food to go around, and winters so cold the mornings are like a punch in the gut. And someday-unless the resistance succeeds and takes the country back-the planes and the fires will find him. Someday the eye will turn in this direction, like a laser beam, consuming everything in its path. Someday all the Wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#resistance #wilds #death

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#habit #necessity #resisted #soon

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#force #irresistible #movable #temptation #work

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. ↗

— Oliver North

#idea #money #neat #resistance #support

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#belgian #belgium #broken #dash #day

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ↗

— Plutarch

#fate #follows #him #leads #resist