Famous quotes containing the word resistance:
“The resistance we make to our passions is due to their weakness, not our strength.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“He made no resistance whatever, and was stabbed in the back.... I must not dwell upon the fearful repast.... Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“It was not seen that womans place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (18861965)
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