Resistant Quotes


There are people who are just suicidal regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems in my family like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more more dialogue for me and I'd always be saying 'No less less'.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company I would be resistant to change too.

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

My heroines more often than not are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

A prejudice unlike a simple misconception is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Historically speaking institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

If I have any message for others it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.

Women's art political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone the process of science ensures that over time good ideas and theories prevail.

The soy-bean in particular has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting especially throughout the South.

Japan's humid and warm summer climate as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor but of course I fell in love with it.

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th 18th century playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started no one took it seriously.

What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Why some gonococcal strains are more resistant than others is still not clear.

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

In the American Metaphysical reality is always material reality hard resistant unformed impenetrable and unpleasant.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

Some bioengineering is good especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place jump rope jumping jacks etc.).

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

In fact people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

That the soft overcomes the hard and the yielding overcomes the resistant is a fact known by all but practiced by few.

Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought pests and that sort of thing.

I grew up going to the movies not watching them on television so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever without missing a beat.

Japans humid and warm summer climate as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether lonely and resistant rearrangers of things anxious malcontents children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are if they are truthful untidy affairs resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future....

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine but also frustrating.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate yet all the time unmistakably other resistant - in a word real.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

Women who are to some extent resistant whom one cannot possess at once whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess are the only interesting ones.

You're used to a TV show and TV is just made for TV shows. It's not made for live events.So anyways I was resistant to it but I did it anyway.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.