Quotes About Stubborn

faith draws its fanatical power from the fact that it is not knowledge: it is blind, passionate, stubborn, and stupid; what it puts forward is done unconditionally, against reason, against history, against all refutation.

All that a stubborn optimism can claim is that the past does not concern us in this particular and fixed form and that we have sacrificed nothing in sacrificing it; thus, many revolutionaries consider it healthy to refuse any attachment to the past and to profess to scorn monuments and traditions.

You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.

She loathed stubborn men: they were so often underqualified and overpresumptuous.

Its women are lovely and stubborn, its men angry and ingenious. Is there a land anywhere like southern Illinois?

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.

I was headstrong.

We mortals are changeable. Alas, I must say more apt to change our minds when right than wrong. Wrong, we are stubborn indeed. Right, we are prone to vacillate and let opportunity escape.

I must say more apt to change our minds when right than wrong. Wrong, we are stubborn indeed.

I did think at first it was my own poor judgment that did cause me loss of many profitable trades. Later, I did credit it to my stubborn disposition.

To put it more precisely, since language is by definition the expression of civilised man, violence is silent. Civilisation and language grew as though violence was something outside. But silence cannot do away with things that language cannot state. Violence is as stubbornly there just as much as death, and if language cheats to conceal universal annihilation, the placid work of time, language alone suffers, language is the poorer, not time and not violence.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

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.

Only two kinds of people can not change their minds, my friend, the foolish and the dead.

Show them a stony heart and sink them with it

doctors can be stubborn about changing the way we do things.

Someone fond of paradoxes and sufficiently stubborn could go on doubting that the ocean was a living being. But it was impossible to deny the existence of its mind, whatever could be understood by the term. It had become quite clear that it was only too aware of our presence above it…

But for reasons history will never understand, Cajetan and the church could not perceive the situation along these lines at all. They were oddly stubborn, and for this reason the Reformation, which might well have been averted, went forward.

He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was equally swift to give and take offense and ferociously critical of everyone except himself.

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

You were always so willful, never sweet.