Quotes About Obstinacy

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, . . . but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

if anybody other than myself had been at the head of the Reich! Anyone you care to mention would have lost his nerve. I was obliged to lie, and what saved us was my unshakable obstinacy and my amazing aplomb."29

Despite the daunting problems of identity that beset our contemporary society, we can see in the horizon the beginnings of a new relationship between artist and community which will not flourish like the mango-trick in the twinkling of an eye but will rather, in the hard and bitter manner of David Diop's young tree, grow patiently and obstinately to the ultimate victory of liberty and fruition.

One must neither passively yield to fate ("God has brought it about") nor obstinately protest against it ("Satan did it"), but rather ask oneself, "How can I best use this situation for the advance of God's Kingdom?" This is a very creative question-and it is also biblical. The promise in Romans 8:28 reads, "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God.

He was a linguist, and therefore he had pushed the bounds of obstinacy well beyond anything that is conceivable to other men. He

This is so bad for him. Hundreds of people saying wonderful marvellous far too young what a genius. It seems to me that it is does not take miraculous intelligence to master the simple fact that '??????‡? is Odysseus, if you go on to master 5,000 similar simple facts you have only shown that you are a miracle of obstinacy.

Perdita calls upon her mother to repent, and Harriet repenteth not. She points out that tryhards rarely get enough traction to make a significant nuisance of themselves

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.

Leaving was out of the question, of course. A combination of pride, obstinacy, and simple gonadal fury rooted him in his tracks. Here he would do battle, and that was that.

Oh, subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature's champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and several times to our species nearly wiping itself out.

Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.

Obstinacy is dangerous and destructive when human actions are derailed for good cause.

Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

I wasn't brave, but I was stubborn and prideful. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

I've always been stubborn.

I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

Debo ser discreto, no imponerle a la historia ni mi persona ni mis opiniones. Debo mantenerme sobrio durante las horas de trabajo; debo conservar la salud. No debo aceptar demasiados compromisos de otra índole: no se puede servir a dos señores. Debo seguir el consejo de la historia: hay secretos entre nosotros, y revelarlos sería incurrir en la más grosera de las deslealtades. Y debo estar dispuesto a aceptar determinadas obcecaciones y excentricidades de mi jefa.

The vulnerability in that smile was the surprising element- the vulnerability of our record-breaking muscleman faced with all the crudeness it takes to stay alive. The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man.