Quotes tagged ‘Resistance’

“This is John Connor. If you're listening to this, you are the resistance. Listen carefully, if we attack tonight, our humanity is lost. Command wants us to fight like machines. They want us to make cold, calculated decisions. But we are not machines! And if we behave like them, then WHAT IS THE POIN…”

— John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris, John Connor, Christian Bale, imdb.com

“I had no idea we had the best pilot in the Resistance on board. Comfortable?”

— J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“Stormtrooper: Sir, Resistance fighters. We need more troops. Kylo Ren: Pull the division out. Forget the droid. We have what we need.”

— J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“Kylo Ren: Where is it? Poe Dameron: The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. Kylo Ren: Where—is it? Rey: [softly to herself] The Force?”

— J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“Kylo Ren: Did you come back to say you forgive me? To save my soul? Luke Skywalker: No. [they draw their lightsabers and fight] I failed you, Ben. I'm sorry. Kylo Ren: I'm sure you are! The Resistance is dead, the war is over, and when I kill you, I will have killed the last Jedi! Luke Skywalker: Am…”

— Rian Johnson, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“The Empire, your parents, the Resistance, the Sith, the Jedi... let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That's the only way to become what you are meant to be.”

— Rian Johnson, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.”

— Anonymous, nytimes.com

“She will not be able to resist these pearls.”

— Paul Dichter, Kate Trefry, Dustin Henderson, Gaten Matarazzo, imdb.com

“Lois: Sweetie, it's broccoli, it's good for you. Now open up for the airplane. Stewie: Never! Damn the broccoli! Damn you! And damn the Wright Brothers!”

— Seth MacFarlane, Stewie Griffin, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“I can’t tell you if the girls put up any resistance or not. I killed seven of them; the other guy killed one. We left, he was frantic. He says he doesn't want any of the money at all. He’s dead now—I know he’s dead because I shot him six times.”

— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.com

“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial acceptance and violent rebellion. In between you can have, for instance, a vague, unfocused dissatisfaction; or, worst of all, savage inf…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“What women did with the Women’s March knocked me out. It wasn’t just a day to scream and cry and to go home and forget about. It was a shot over the bow, like, 'We’re here, and there’s a lot of us, and we’re not going away. You’re going to have to contend with us.'”

— Cynthia Nixon, glamour.com

“That's crap. You always have a choice. You can either roll over and die or you can keep fighting, no matter what.”

— Eric Kripke, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“As you become conscious of what you are thinking, resistance to your dominant negative thought patterns will motivate you to justify what you think and feel.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“When it comes to accepting what is, fear, resistance, denial, and against-ness serve to make a difficult experience more difficult.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Rejoice! Our times are intolerable. Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best. Only dire circumstance can precipitate the overthrow of oppressors. The old & corrupt must be laid to waste before the just can triumph. Contradiction will be heightened. The reckoning will be hastened by the…”

— Jenny Holzer, macba.cat

“The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“In recent years the internet has really become a place for people to spread non-media regulated information and for social justice movements to find their footing. I cannot stop thinking about how this is probably a huge huge reason why net neutrality has been on the chopping block so frequently lat…”

— egberts, egberts.tumblr.com

“Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

— John Knox, goodreads.com

“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”

— A.S. Byatt, amazon.com