Stubborn Quotes - Page 12

• Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Real, Anger

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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• There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

  John James Audubon

  Flying, Singing, Bunting

  John James Audubon (1869). “The Life of John James Audubon: The Naturalist”, p.328

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• The imperfect is our paradise.
  Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
  Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
  Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lying, Perfection, Sound

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.218, Vintage

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• During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

  Marlee Matlin

  Father, Grandmother, California

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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• The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Singleness Of Purpose, Quality, Fundamentals

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• Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
  Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones;
  Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss,
  The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Lying, Kissing, Great Love

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

  Helen Keller

  Self, Firsts, Facts

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• Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Baptism, Separation

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• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.

  Martin Schulz

  Government, People, Vices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Wise, Mistake, Men

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• Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

  Aaron Levie

  Innovation, Favors, Problem

  Twitter post from May 25, 2014

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• When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Baby, Real, Shapes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Blessed, Mean

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• I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Ignored, Ifs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.

  Michael Laudrup

  People, Guy, Cheerful

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• My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!

  Henry Cho

  Selfish, Wife, Boring

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• Weak people can be very stubborn.

  Josephine Tey

  People, Weakness, Weak

  Josephine Tey (1998). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.

  Jon Stewart

  Iraq, Spain, Troops

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• For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Trying, Missionary

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• I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

  Dree Hemingway

  Teenager, Men, Sea

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  Natalie Maines

  Country, Fate, Fans

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