Stubborn Quotations | Page 2

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

No team could be compared with them but we are counting on the good cricket we've played recently. I have little doubt about the ability of my players and I want stubborn efforts from them.

That's all he wants to do, to be part of something to help people. Yeah, we worried but you just don't think it's going to happen to you. And you can't tell him he can't do something. He's just a stubborn cowboy.

That's all he wants to do, to be part of something to help people. Yea, we worried (about the firefighting dangers) but you just don't think it's going to happen to you. And you can't tell him he can't do something. He's just a stubborn cowboy.

Chuck Grassley is a stubborn Iowa farmer who often drives the White House and Republican leaders to distraction. He has said that if the Barrett report finally emerges as a mutilated remnant in order to protect the IRS, he will press for legislation to change that. It may be the last hope for the truth to emerge.

Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte’s mouth so firmly set into a hard line. “Would you like a thesaurus?” Will inquired. “You seem to be running out of words.

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

Graystorm: You know Firestar was also very naughty, just like you. Bramblepaw: Really? He seems to be very responsible! Graystorm: Yes. I was there when he was too stubborn to not help RiverClan

You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver

I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

It's the same old stubborn regime playing the same old tricks. This is a police state and they don't give up.

They forsake the Fear of the True Guru, and because of their stubborn mindedness, their efforts do not succeed.

Through their stubborn mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded, they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

Being either stubborn or persistent, depending on whether this month's forecast turns out to be right, I believe that the March employment report should, finally, show the long-awaited jobs pop.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live...

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.

Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)

There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

I think I was born stubborn, that's all,

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

I'm not Stubborn; I'm right!

And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

I'm usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don't back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I'd get so mad I'd go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

The brave are always stubborn

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.