Stubborn Quotes - Page 6

• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

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• During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

  Norah Jones

  Makeup, Hair, Unhappy

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• I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

  Ruud Gullit

  Player, Matter, Opinion

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• I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Race, Till The End

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• Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Liberty, Gold, Noses

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• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Carpe Diem, Differences

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• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

  Oliver Goldsmith (1792). “The Good Natured Man: A Comedy”, p.28

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• You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

  Cleveland Amory

  Acceptance, Facts, Duchess

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• Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

  Vicki Baum

  Night, Men, Worry

  Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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• The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Children

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• When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

  Hunter Lovins

  Parent, Trying, Directors

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• This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

  George Crabbe

  Wise, Kings, Selfish

  George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29

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• Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe cares about white or black humans, it seems, and what meaning could physical appearance possibly have when there are sentient beings that look like lobsters or like Jabba the Hutt? Unfortunately, in the real world, such hopeful sentiments are regularly refuted by our stubborn insistence on always finding someone to discriminate against.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, War, Hopeful

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U.S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.

  Edward Said

  People, Desire, Wish

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.

  Max Lucado

  Animal, Sheep, Doors

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.

  Henry Scougal

  Blessing, Long, World

  Henry Scougal (2013). “The Life of God in the Soul of Man”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Soul, Changing Your Life, Easier

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

  Jon Pareles

  Artist, Imagination, Ego

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• 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.

  Scott Stapp

  Relationship, Uprising, Trying

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• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Dream, Wisdom

  'Chuang Tzu' (1889, translated by H. A. Giles) ch. 2

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• Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Life, Determination, Yoga

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• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

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• There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Soulmate, Laughter

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

  Kelly Clarkson

  Thinking, Loyal, Texan

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• Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Bad Things, Selfishness

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