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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Seneca

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.

Hugh Macleod

Mooney is a constant agitator who has resisted the seductions of conformity.

Terry Gross

We say she resisted and that is why she died.

Colin Murray

Do they want to spin out to the public and lay off some of the risk on the film side on the investors? ... A lot of bankers have been recommending they do that and they've resisted.

Porter Bibb

There is genuine shock in the market that Intel will miss its numbers. They have resisted attempts by analysts to downgrade earnings.

Bill O'neill

The Metropolitan Police Service initially resisted us taking on the investigation but we overcame that.

John Wadham

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Augustine Of Hippo

I chased him through a field a few hundred yards, ... He resisted arrest ... pushing, pulling, kicking and was completely non-compliant while I handcuffed him.

Joe Howell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Thomas J. Peters

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

The approach adopted by the government to muzzle the press must be resisted by all Kenyans.

Tom Ojienda

If you wanted troops there sooner, the governor could have let Bush federalize the guard and send active duty troops in to do law enforcement she resisted that.

Rich Lowry

Potential political pressures must be resisted, ... The best contribution the ECB can make to the economic and social wellbeing of the euro area is to maintain price stability.

Otmar Issing

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

Anthony Stewart Head

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The temptation to overwhelm them with unjustified employment law, just to placate the trade union movement, must be resisted.

John Cridland

Colorado has resisted standardization for 130 years.

Phil Fox

We have to keep in mind that the police were in the process of apprehending a criminal suspect who had resisted a number of attempts to arrest him and who had shot a police officer.

John Street

What we have been told is that the US ambassador appreciated the policies of the President of Pakistan and there were some attempts to involve him in a discussion on the internal situation in Pakistan, which according to the embassy, he resisted and did not make any comments.

Tasnim Aslam

Initially resisted us taking on the investigation, but we overcame that. It was an important victory for our independence. This dispute has caused delay in us taking over the investigation, but we have worked hard to recover the lost ground.

John Wadham

He's accomplished the impossible, ... He's turned the DPJ ... into a party that's against change, and he's turned LDP, a party that's resisted (change), into the symbol of reform.

Gerald Curtis

The Press has the mandate to inform, entertain, and educate the society and any action meant to interfere with this freedom will be resisted at all costs.

Ezekiel Mutua