Quotes About Obstinacy

No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.

I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.

She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

The curse of the witless is to beat one's head against the obstinate wall of how things really are, rather than what they insist upon their being.

A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.

cortejar la obstinación e ignorar la inspiración con el fin de que esta última, despechada, se rindiese y librase sus primeras luces.

If your opinion is sound, and you forego it for the love of God and follow that of another, you will win great merit. I have often heard that it is safer to accept advice than to give it. It may even come about that each of two opinions is good; but to refuse to come to an agreement with others when reason or occasion demand it, is a sign of pride and obstinacy.

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character.

You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.

Le había costado mucho recuperarse del amor frustrado y temía que si oyera su voz por un instante volvería a naufragar en la misma pasión obstinada de antes.

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass?

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

A Colin el whisky se le removió en el estómago. Ella se quebraría antes que doblegarse un ápice. Tuvo ganas de sacarla a rastras del salón y quitarle su obstinación a besos.

One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and defi­nitely, and changing them slowly. This quality is so pronounced in Mr. Ford, that it has given him the reputation of being obstinate.

The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of modern improvements, excited great mirth among our wiser brotherhood.

Therefore I say this : in sooth, you may come to feel sorrow; but remember in that day that the happiness you have lost is not the only happiness life has to give ; and if you believe this—and you will one day—then later you will understand that the hardest and heaviest part of your sorrow before arose from your own obstinacy.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.