Quotes About Unyielding

Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

49. To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. 49a.

Be the stone cliff against which the waves constantly break, standing firm against the fury of the sea.

49. To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

Be like a promontory against which the waves are always breaking. It stands fast, and stills the waters that rage around it.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

So is there any part of you that's not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

He's a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

The brave are always stubborn

He has the qualities of a rock.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair

You'd never break this one. You'd never even bend her. She'd die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.

Of the things that bind the universe together, gravity is not particularly strong a force, as it happens. It just…never stops reaching. That always sort of made me feel good about gravity. It's always looking for the next rock, always something down a breaker in space-time, whipping something in a long, arcing curve around something else. Gravity doesn't give up. It keeps on trucking.

The black Russian wolf-the oborotni-seemed wired together out of broomsticks, but the grip that matched Keith's was as unyielding as the ambition in his eyes.

Arms folded across her rib cage, chin drifted, Perceval could have been a statue labeled defiance.

Apparently Farweather was going to keep talking no matter what.

No one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up.

But those who even slightly understand my character, must know that I have always been too utterly indifferent to, too unfortunately contemptuous of public opinion, to stoop to any deception in order to conciliate it. Moreover,

I got a granite chin.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I'm pretty gritty.