Quotes About Obstinacy

Both eyes had cataracts; but she obstinately refused to submit to an operation, in spite of the entreaties of her sister-in-law. The secret reason of that obstinacy was known to herself only; she declared it was want of courage; but the truth was that she would not let her brother spend twenty-five louis for her benefit. That sum would have been so much the less for the good of the household.

o que mais nos faz sofrer talvez seja justamente a relevância excessiva que atribuímos à nossa presença no mundo, pois essa relevância é a pedra de fundação de todas nossas obstinadas repetições, é graças a ela que insistimos em ser sempre "iguais a nós mesmos" (sendo que, no caso, essa expressão não tem um sentido positivo).

Am I dealing with stubbornness, idiocy, or some combination of the two?" "-Cam Rohan

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life.

In a way being stubborn can be a good thing but most times it's a bad thing cuz it will hinder you from moving on in life.

Being stubborn is the worst thing about me.

with the Spirit, even half a verse of Scripture inadvertently overheard by an unbeliever can crush his obstinacy and convert his soul.

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man. As though anyone over ten believes you can subjugate with a smile, even one that kind and warm, all the things that are out to get you, with a smile hold it all together when the strong arm of the unforeseen comes crashing down on your head.

They just won't listen," and

THE MULE DISLIKES YOU

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Bien describió Jeremy Taylor el progreso del pecado en el hombre: "Primero lo asusta, después le resulta placentero, después fácil, y luego deleitoso, luego frecuente, después habitual, y finalmente ¡confirmado! Después el hombre es impenitente, después obstinado, luego resuelve nunca arrepentirse, y finalmente es condenado.

Y es que el amor -lo que se dice amor- / llega muy pocas veces, aunque se obstinen tantos / en convertir el aureus en moneda corriente...

Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.' That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.

We guess as we read, we create; everything starts from an initial error; those that follow (and this applies not only to the reading of letters and telegrams, not only to all reading), extraordinary as they may appear to a person who has not begun at the same place, are all quite natural. A large part of what we believe to be true (and this applies even to our final conclusions) with an obstinacy equalled only by our good faith, springs from an original mistake in our premises.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.

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

It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes

God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.