Quotes About Unbending

someone who cannot be squeezed into doing something he would otherwise never do.

The Unconvincibles are the people who are not amenable to reason of any sort. Their minds are not only closed, but bolted and hermetically sealed. In most cases , their beliefs congealed at an early age; by the time they left their teens, they were encased in a rigid framework of thought and feeling, which no evidence or argument can penetrate.

Ask any of my brothers, nothing stops me. No one stops me. I got the name Steele because I'm unbending.

Magellan refused to be swayed by the ambassador's entreaties.

No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

It was impossible to tame, like leeches.

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 the most stubborn person I know.

I'm pretty stubborn.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

I'm stubborn.

I'm a stubborn individual.

I am very stubborn.

I'm very stubborn.

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

I have always rebelled against the unadorned, the unbefitting, the unawakened, the unresisting, the undesirable, the unplanned, the unshapely, the uncommitted, the unattempted -- all leading to the unintended. I believe in the unsubmissive, the unflattering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable -- in other words, in an art of life.

You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.

This lady is not for turning.

I have a certain way of being in this world, and I shall not, I shall not be moved.