Resistance Quotations | Page 4

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

There's an ongoing kind of resistance movement to Babcock. But I don't think they have the juice to deliver.

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

It was for (my dad), and for me, and for all the people out there who really like the honky-tonk sound, and it was born out of a resistance to complacency,

It's a bit of a compromise, ... There is a cultural resistance to the polygraph that is different at the FBI than at the CIA. A polygraph is something that is given to new employees and suspected criminals, not to employees in good standing.

It is ridiculous that Bank of America feels that it should pay compensation for murky business dealings of long-defunct banks. Instead of standing up for their rights and the best interests of shareholders, Bank of America has chosen to take the coward's route of least resistance and pay off the shakedown artists in the reparations movement.

I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so very boring. It's really painful. It's laborious.

It's a hard call to make, but the line of least resistance probably remains up.

It?s mind-boggling. It?s outside my experience and I look at it as part of the evolution of mankind. When dramatic change is happening, like there is now, in the drive toward world peace, there will always be resistance to it.

Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it -- whether slowly or fast -- every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned.

It may take another few days because you have ... small pockets of resistance from place to place,

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

The next three percent move for the S&P could be up, and that would take us to important resistance levels. The question is what is the bias beyond that, what is the next five percent for the market? That's not clear.

The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.

The best we can do in Florida, to make sure we have the lowest rates possible, is to continue to improve the wind resistance of our homes. We think $500 million is more like it.

Strong biceps and triceps help me slice through the water's resistance and swim more efficiently,

The bellwether stocks aren't performing; the path of least resistance is down. Some real technical damage was done.

Syria is not incapable of establishing a resistance and deterrent balance that would force Israel to reconsider its calculations,

It's called resistance training. The women are working two opposing muscle groups at the same time in a push and pull fashion.

It's an extremely choppy market. I think we have seen highs for January and the market has just got some natural resistance levels up, the first being $550 and the more important level is going to be $560.

It was a combination of a couple of Army regulations that dealt primarily with SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) and joint publications that talked about CSAR (combat search and rescue),

The water adds so much resistance because you are always pushing it away. Whereas, on land, you are only pushing away air.

They were basically looking for a way to get out. They didn't offer any resistance or try to run.

It was hard. The gear doesn't breathe very well, so it gets real hot, real quick. It's a little like running in waist-deep water --the resistance of the pants themselves is a big challenge.

It was a fight, I can tell you that. No one wanted it. It was bi-partisanneither side wanted it. There was a lot of resistance but we just couldn't do the old form anymore.

This is kind of the untold story, the story doesn't grab national headlines. But if you look at what's happening in community after community, you see that when the numbers in minority communities reach a certain point and when they start to be interested in voting and politics, there's often resistance - and that resistance takes forms that violate the law.

It's not a big roaring bull market. It's just a slow but steady climb towards resistance in terms of the Nasdaq. We could get up to 4,400 or 4,600 by the end of the quarter. In terms of the Dow, we're getting closer to resistance and we're in the zone. Maybe we can go up another couple of hundred points.

Any time you mandate something, you're going to have more resistance to it.

The Land Ministry will take thorough measures to work closely with local authorities to fully investigate the buildings handled by the architects as to whether their earthquake resistance data has been falsified or not.

Their coping tactics may be able to give us a glimpse into the future of clinical resistance to antibiotics.

The continued failure to breach topside resistance at $1.22 will see some investors turn bearish on the single currency.

I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes. Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).

I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes, ... Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).

In a world of so many choices, people are going to take the path of least resistance and do the things that are easy and enjoyable for them.

I like it a lot better than the other one I had. It gives me a lot more resistance like my normal leg did,

I met with a lot of resistance when I wanted our newest album to be a double CD. Many people thought I was going to ruin the band by doing it.

I'm assuming that everyone is a beginner especially in resistance training,

If the world fails to mount a more serious effort to fight infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance will increasingly threaten to send the world back to a pre-antibiotic age,

In order to reduce the impact of this disease, it is essential that resistant bananas be developed, ... Chemical control is available but expensive and generally not available for poor farmers who depend on this crop. Moreover, the pathogen has a tendency to develop resistance or tolerance toward some types of fungicides.

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Investors know that the upside resistance (on the Nikkei) is strong at 16,000 points, so the best strategy is hunting bargains when the market sinks.

Inventory levels have been held back because of the pervasive pessimism in technology. There was resistance to build inventory because of fear of charges.

In two years, it's matured so much beyond what we expected, so we don't get any resistance to the neighborhood. We don't get questions like, 'Why would I want to live here?' It's got to be Vulcan's marketing that has driven that.

In addition to multi-race SCN resistance, 95M60 has a couple of other traits that are beneficial and unique. It has good root-knot nematode resistance and very strong soybean aphid antibiosis.

I realized that I was planting seeds, and that it was important to stay low-key, because once you say, 'I've got it' or 'This is it,' then resistance starts to build. But, if you start giving away seeds, people will claim their seeds. Some nurture them and grow them, and that makes a foundational change.

His leg strength is at about 90 percent of where it was before. He's doing resistance work and is shooting every day.

Child-resistant caps are enormously effective to keep children under 5 away from household chemicals and poisons, and anything with any cosmetics, ... They are our line of first resistance and they are absolutely crucial.

Certainly, the standard for use of force in the United States is that the officers can use force to defend themselves and/or to overcome resistance to arrest,

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.

When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.

Without resistance you can do nothing

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

On the other side of resistance is the flow.

You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline-I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.

I am very glad that we are able to assist people with an all natural product that works extremely well. Antibiotic resistance is a HUGE issue in medicine right now in America and around the world. The more we use antibiotics in people and animals, the more resistant bacteria is becoming.

However, he has at the level of resistance that we need.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Health care professionals and the general public should become more aware of the viral resistance trend and be cautious when prescribing and consuming antiviral medications.

For now support should continue to be found at $513//oz and $505/oz while resistance above is expected between $520/oz and $525/oz.

For the near term, at least, the path of least resistance appears to be down.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

I had originally done a production called The Resistance. It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

To fly, we must have resistance.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.