Quotes About Stubborn

I'm stubborn as those garbage bags That time cannot decay

Where belief tries to expel doubt, faith walks with it, offering no easy answers. Belief insists, while faith hopes and trusts. The one is demanded, the other freely given, and this freedom means that real faith is both difficult and stubborn. It involves an ongoing struggle, a continual questioning of what we think we know, a wrestling with issues and ideas. It goes hand-in-hand with doubt, in a never-ending conversation with it. And sometimes even in conscious defiance of it.

You are stubborn,' said Roger Nowell. 'I am not tame,' said Alice Nutter.

He's as independent as a hog on ice.

He probably should have predicted that Winter would be a stubborn donkey for no reason.

That went well. He probably should have predicted that Winter would be a stubborn donkey for no reason.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

I'd always been stubborn. I admired Mr. Crepsley more than he knew, but hated the idea of looking like a pushover who did everything he was told. Sometimes I disobeyed the vampire just so he wouldn't think I was paying attention to what he said!

Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose. I wasn't allowing myself the service of being who I really am as an artist. I'd given myself dreadful parameters in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted. I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She's a stubborn little brat.*

A stubborn man can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

When John hardened his heart to the interdict and redoubled the attacks upon Church property, the Pope, in 1209, took the supreme step of excommunication. The King's subjects were thereby absolved from their allegiance; his enemies received the blessing of the Church and were sanctified as Crusaders. But John was stubborn and unabashed. Interdict and excommunication brought no ghostly terrors to his soul.

I like to think there's a little bit of me in you:a love for music and a stubborn streak a mile wide. But we're different, you and me, and I don't forget it. You're strong and you're tough and you tell the truth. You're a good person, Emma. I'm none of those things. I used to think I was tough, but now I know I'm the biggest coward that ever lived.

Let's go find someplace with a little less traffic." She grinned up at him. "I like it here." He narrowed his eyes. "Just once, could you pretend to agree with me on something? Or are you always going to be this obstinate?" "Try me." "Black," he said. "White." "Yes." "No." "Stay." "Go." "Great. Knew I could get you to see it my way.

I wasn't brave, but I was stubborn and prideful. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. 

The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

Anorexia is a self-destructive thing, and you become stubborn, so when people are trying to tell you something, you get it into your head that they're against you, and you're not going to listen.

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.