Quotes About Stubborn

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

I am not particularly well-behaved.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

Richard was a very stubborn child. If he didn't want to do something, he wouldn't do it. His father was the only person he wouldn't argue with. Richard was deathly afraid of Julian's temper and hands.

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

Westerberg's latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless. Both father and son were stubborn and high-strung. Given Walt's need to exert control and Chris's extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable

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

One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

Decisions are stubborn things, but debates about them are pliable.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.

Fools and stubborn people make rich lawyers.

Mom was stubborn, and eloquent.

Perhaps it took several generations to make a man, perhaps it took several combinations and re-creations of his mother's gentleness and resilience, his father's enormous energy and appetite for the new, a subtle blending of masculine and feminine, selfish and selfless, stubborn and yielding, before a proper man could be fashioned.

There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so long composed. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.

The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

Irrational is a strong word, which connotes impulsivity, emotionality, and a stubborn resistance to reasonable argument.

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.