Quotes About Stubborn

The moral dilemma escalated with the stakes. "We aren't heroes," the Captain continued. "We're tough. We're stubborn. We try to honor our commitments. But we don't die for lost causes.

The river barge Binkey's Sequin reminded me of a shopkeeper's wife. She was middle-aged, middle class, a little run down, a little overweight, extremely stubborn and set in her ways, needing masterful coaxing and cajoling to get her to give her loving best, but also faithful and warm and unsinkably optimistic in her care for her children.

Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.

Utterly wrong, according to the AQM way of thinking. It comes from a stubborn insistence on thinking of an electron as a tiny classical dot zipping around inside of the wave function, rather than the electron actually being the wave function.

He raised his bowl of milk tea. "Let's drink to stubborn mothers.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

It's not working," Mary said quietly, and Cat had to reluctantly admit she was right. Sean and Emma couldn't have had more distance between them if they were in different counties. Cat and Mary were smooshed together in front of the kitchen sink, watching the party through the window. Sean on one end of the yard, Emma on the other. "Why are they being so stubborn?" Mary snorted. "He's a Kowalski. I'm not sure what Emma's excuse is.

indeed Soviet officials frequently complained about the "dependent" habits of Homo Sovieticus, his lack of initiative, and his stubborn expectation

Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

intransigent

The stubborn embrace of austerity by key European leaders, despite all of the contrary evidence, was more than a little frustrating.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change

When someone is heavily invested in his or her opinion, it is inevitably hard to change the person's mind.

it is even harder to persuade people who do not wish to be persuaded.

This is for your stubborn insistence on willfully endangering us both." Smack!

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

I'm a wrestler at heart. And, for wrestling, we usually lose as much weight as we can. We're pretty stubborn. If we say we're going to do something, we do it. That's just how wrestlers are. I just felt like I was the bigger, stronger, faster guy at 170. That's why I did it.

He is a boy, just as boys are. A little dull, maybe, but he hasn't had the advantages we've had.' 'Which are?' prompted Glinda. 'Even for a short time,' said Elphaba, 'we had a mother. Giddy, alcoholic, imaginative, uncertain, desperate, brave, stubborn, supportive woman. We had her. Melena.

For facts are stubborn; they do not disappear when historians or sociologists refuse to learn from them, though they may when everybody has forgotten them. In our case, such oblivion would not be academic, it would quite literally spell the end of the American Republic.

Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

He showed me the chopper. He said, 'I'm going to cut all your traps.' He had the chopper in his hand. He wasn't an easy fellow, I'll tell you.' 'He wasn't what?' says Richardson, flummoxed again. On Isle Madame, 'not easy' means not easily pushed around, stubborn, forceful in pursuing what one wants.

Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this.