Quotes About Stubbornness

She is so stubborn her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction. Naturally, they have steadfastly refused to own up to it, so I cannot tell you where it all went reptiles-up.

This is where Jean's stubbornness and, perhaps, God's stubborn grace came into play. "My definition of grace would be multifaceted, but part of it would certainly be God's passion for brokenness. He does, he really does love brokenness," Jean told me. "Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

Dare to change the world There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubborness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

She thought of herself wondering how he was going to breathe in the coffin and marveled at the stubbornness of mental habits.

If you want to make a man hate you fiercely and forever, prove to him something he does not wish to believe.

I thought I'd try yoga to make myself more flexible — but I'm still incredibly stubborn.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un necio y su necedad.

We had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride.

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

He had, in fact, cracked his knee-cap. But refusing to have a doctor

I know how to take care of myself." "No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don't know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That's conceit." She slapped the glass on the counter. "It's independence and capability." "To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.

There are none who are as deaf as those who do not want to hear." —BARRY LEVENTHAL

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

What do you expect me to do, leap across space and brain them with the jawbone of an ass? Or maybe they'll go away if I throw ricks at them?