Quotes About Unbending

Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented.

Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed, and near the surface of a neutron star gravity crushed absolutely, until diamond flowed like water; until a mountain collapsed into a millionth of its height.

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

that she was course.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

When pushed, he always stood his ground.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

A stiffnecked people.

I am not flexible.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...

Besides the bore condescending, who, whether good-natured or ill-natured, is a most provoking animal—there is the bore facetious, an insufferable creature, always laughing, but with whom you can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety—the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind—who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to unbend the bow in company.

For the love of god, Oedipus, tell me too, what is it? Why this rage? You're so unbending.

I was headstrong.

He would hang out no signals, he would take notice of none.

Show them a stony heart and sink them with it

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.

Stubborn, hardheaded woman.

And don't you try to butter me up. I ain't butterable.

Facts are stubborn things.

This lady is not for turning.