Quotes About Unyielding

A stiffnecked people.

We live in exciting times, says the radio. We make no complaints. We will plant our feet firmly in our earth, and no attack will move us.

when people accuse us of being retrograde, or medieval, or puritanical—all words rummaged out of the box labeled "Not Progressive"—we should shrug, as if they had accused us of walking on two feet, and

She had no human side. For the next few minutes, she said nothing, sitting at my table like some sort of malevolent Buddha, unmoving and imperious, letting me sweat it out as I wondered what was going to happen next.

I was never the person to try and be the centre of attention or to talk a lot. I was always the person who, if you say something, I'd just punch you in your face. For real.

I pull no punches!

Even when I was a little punk kid, I would fight anybody - it didn't matter. That's who I've been my whole life.

I'm very, very persistent... I mean, fine, I'm pushy.

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

I am not flexible.

I am a focused person. I am a fighter.

I get lots of fouls on me, but it is no foul because I am physical. Because I don't go down, that is the problem as well. But I will keep playing my game. Why would I change? It's my game.

Cara didn't bother to respond. She knew Jessica was like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—she always got her man.

Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying its thirst.

Take my warning to heart instead, and don't be so unyielding in future, you can't fight against this court, you must confess to guilt. Make your confession at the first chance you get. Until you do that, there is no possibility of getting out of their clutches, none at all.

Die Logik war unerschütterlich, aber einem Menschen, der leben will, widersteht sie nicht.

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.

I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

The world went on the same after all. The same things happened every morning. So what if they did not like her? She would go on the same.

Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.

under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype.