#resisting

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. ↗

— Colin Firth

#although #been #cheques #come #contemplate

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#begins #blocking #ends #his #man

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#did #europeans #hamas #launch #list

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#either #god #his #molded #process

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#call #cloud #computing #i #internet

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. ↗

— Anthony Head

#becoming #david #hope #i #idea

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#comparatively #creativity #easy #formulaic #generating