Resists Quotes

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

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

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.