When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing.

- Jane Seymour

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

- James Mill

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

- James J. Corbett

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

- Joanna Newsom

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

- John Barton

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

- Jean Rostand

Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.

- Jane Krakowski

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

- J. M. Coetzee

It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist.

- Joanna Lumley

I resist life.

- Jeff Bridges

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

- J. K. Rowling

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

- Gene Weingarten

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

- George Bernard Shaw

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

- Don Herold

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

- Clint Eastwood

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

- Christopher Reeve

I could never resist the call of the trail.

- Buffalo Bill

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

- Aleksandar Hemon

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

- Anne Lamott