Quotes About Stubborn

Danny's like his old man," Pasco says. "Stubborn. You heard about Irish Alzheimer's? They forget everything but the grudges.

He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.

become a bastion of willful ignorance

It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.

Just promise us—for this evening—that you won't try to sacrifice yourself to your stubborn idea of justice to a Norman king. No sacrifices till you've had at least one good night's sleep, and something to eat.

insisted on having his own way.

He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.

The danger, of course, existed in her curiosity, her intelligence, and her stubbornly observant eyes. She had to go away before she found out too much. No one wished her, personally, any harm; she was small and pretty and no one would want to hurt her, but if she became a danger she must suffer.

I'm just struck by how absolutely certain we can be about things for which there is no objective certainty. How stubborn. And how often we can fool ourselves.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

Don't confuse me with the facts—I've already made up my mind.

Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.

It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

If you know me at all, I'm stubbornly proud to a fault.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.