It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.
We may brave human laws but we cannot resist natural ones.
As long as the number one worry for people keeping them up at nights is whether they're going to have a job in the morning then they are less likely to resist unfair changes or unfair treatment or cuts in real pay at work.
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know but they do.
Love is easy and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea someone says something and you're in love.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance especially if one had no choice.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
The problem is is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas wind at all angles and ever varying force arched surfaces head resistance ratio of weight to area and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible as a contemporary poet.