Resist Quotes

“No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are...”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...

do we sit still
under attack?

or do we start pushing back?

never back up
never back down

& FIGHT.”
― Otep Shamaya

“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Persistence wears down resistance.”
― William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“I later learn that what I suffered was called blunt force trauma. It's remarkably similar to how I felt after the election, as if I'd been slammed into a wall or hit by a car. Both pains persist-show no signs, in fact, of ever going away. The damage is permanent. I will never be the same as I was before the accident/election.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso

“Resistance isn’t enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Ho guadagnato una vita,
un biglietto per la morte,
e viaggio ancora.
In certi momenti
ho creduto d'essere giunto,
alla fine del viaggio mi sbagliavo.
Erano solo imprevisti del cammino.”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“It's so tempting to resist a little gift
when you're expecting the otherwise.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“activism: (n.) opting for a lifestyle of getting off your ass.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Do not succumb to the direction life bends you. Resist the wind, and win.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Change is inevitable. You can accept the incremental steps to change or resist and get a manure load dumped on you.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“5 Patterns of Strife -
Attachment. Resisting. Catastrophizing. Victimizing. Withdrawing.”
― Jake Eagle LPC, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

“Resist the devil but rest on the Lord, the Divine being.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“So are you saying you'd turn him away if he knocked on your door tonight?"

"He's not going to knock on my door." But at the thought of it, my entire body warmed.

"But if he did," she pushed. "What would you do?"

"Hmmm. Is he wearing clothes?"

"Let's say he's shirtless."

"Damn. Is his hair doing that thing in the front?"

"Definitely. And he smells good. Like, really good."

"Ugh, that's so annoying." I sighed. "Ideally, I like to think I'd be strong enough to be the first female in his life to resist him." Turning around, I faced her. "Realistically, though, I'd probably think about it for two seconds, then jump his bones."

She cackled with glee. "I knew it.”
― Melanie Harlow, Call Me Crazy

“Some athletes resist fear, or some try to deny fear. Others attempt to conquer it. Athletes should accept fear and recognize it as the body’s way of telling them to become energized. Unmask your fears and face them down. Examine them. “Many times when fear starts to hit me, my best chance of overcoming it lies in facing it squarely and examining it rationally,”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“Having a bottom line makes it easier to resist pressure and temptations of the moment.”
― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

“Rather than resisting the other side’s criticism, invite it.”
― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

“You can use standards of legitimacy both as a sword to persuade others, and as a shield to help you resist pressure to give in arbitrarily. (“I would like to give you a discount, but this price is firm. It is what General Motors paid for the same item last week; here is the bill of sale.”) Just as, by finding relevant precedent and principles a lawyer enhances his or her ability to persuade a judge, so a negotiator can enhance his or her negotiation power by finding precedents, principles, and other external criteria of fairness and by thinking of ways to present them forcefully and tellingly: “I am asking for no more and no less than you are paying others for comparable work.” “We will pay what the house is worth if we can afford it. We are offering what the similar house nearby sold for last month. Unless you can give us a good reason why your house is worth more, our”
― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

“I resist stoically. No cat is going to boss me around this morning.”
― Jay Heinrichs, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

“Suppose at a party I bent back your thumb slightly and, on the basis of its resistance and curvature, proclaimed you “quite a stubborn individual, someone who resists being pressured in a direction you don’t want to go.”
― Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“These were people whose certainty that they had the truth allowed them to withstand enormous social, economic, and legal pressures and whose commitment to their dogma grew as each pressure was resisted.”
― Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“If you don’t resist it, once critical people have had their say, they’re done with it. Say “Thanks for being honest” or “Thanks for taking the time to let me know how you feel” or “Thanks for caring so much.” Simple, subtle, and sweet.”
― Rick Kirschner, Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

“Burn it down, dear one
—burn it all down.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“People who were instructed to focus on their targets in practice negotiations consistently negotiated better agreements than people who focused on their reservation values instead. The people who focused on their targets did two things differently. They asked for more at the outset, and they hung in there a little longer. They resisted agreeing until they received an offer that was close to their goal. In one study, participants who focused on their targets reached agreements that were 13 percent higher than those achieved by people negotiating about the same issues who focused instead on the minimum they would accept.”
― Linda Babcock, Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

“Do not be discouraged by what you see. Rather, be discouraged if you refuse to rise up against what you see.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When he was with a client, he had to be careful not to use any of the forbidden words. Struggle, resist, rebel, queer—and a host of others—were considered too radical by the State and had been banned decades ago, replaced with more innocuous words such as 'to make effort ', 'to dispute' and 'to betray'. Queer, having passed through 'LGBTQIA+' at the turn of the century and 'Sexual and gender divergents' to decades later, now had no permissible equivalent that wasn't a slur. As the linguists working in the State knew very well, without a vocabulary to express it, there could be no concept. By banning the very idea of queerness, they hoped that the people themselves would also disappear.”
― Otter Lieffe, Margins and Murmurations

“As long as we were struggling against each new loss of some part of ourselves, we weren’t fighting against Cynlira. As long as we weren’t working together, we couldn’t fight.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“To change is to evolve; to resist is to wither.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero