Quotes About Unyielding

What is good is irrepressible.

At least Aielwomen did not walk around with their noses in the air, or think you should jump just because they said so. Of course, some of their games were on the rough side, and they did have the habit of trying to kill you now and again.

there was a solidness to him, as though a flood could wash around him without uprooting his feet.

She was hell on wheels and used to getting her own way.

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Debate is never finished; it can't be, lest democracy be no longer democratic and society be stripped of or forfeit its autonomy. Democracy means that the citizen's task is never complete. Democracy exists through persevering and unyielding citizens' concern. Once that concern is put to sleep, democracy expires.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken.

Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.

Poverty was timeless and you could depend upon it. It was never out of fashion.

most staid fellow, who most-like firmly

I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Might! I say to myself, Might, always Might—and be it no more than an inch it is merciless.

He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.

Not suppliant: never that. Defiant, unconquerable

Bill Romanowski was one of the most feared players to play, not only because of his intensity, but because he played through the whistle and after the whistle.

I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.