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«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Writer) | Keywords: behave, blossomed, bud, budded, budding, but then, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, curious, drawer, drawers, friendly, notices, Only Yesterday, resist, slips, very well
«I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle | Keywords: resist, tolerate
«It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: foolish, pleasures, resist, slave, wise to
«It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: beginning, easier, resist, The Beginning, The End
«I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Funny | Keywords: found, resist, tempt, temptation
«I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it»
Author: Mae West (Actress) | About: Self-control, Temptation, Willpower | Keywords: generally, resist, temptation
«It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: approval, conform, inborn, requirement, resist, seat, successfully
«I can resist everything except temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: resist, temptation
«It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: case, invasions, resist, values
«It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: invasions, resist
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