Quotes About Obstinate

nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers. #satyamevjayate

Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self?

And, echoing Jerott, 'So why in hell have you come?' Philippa's gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end. 'To look after the baby,' she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second's blank pause, Francis Crawford flung back his damp head and laughed.

Of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane : My nephew is nervous, fastidious and inhibited; my niece by marriage obstinate, energetic and independent. They are both possessed of a truly diabolical pride. Paul Austin Delagardie

M. Van Aldin is an obstinate man," said Poirot drily. "I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.

yet death has an obstinate way of denying us the solutions we imagine for ourselves.

Mao's instruction to exterminate grass had led to a constant demand for manpower bc of the grass's obstinate nature.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.

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.

Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.