Stubborn Quotes - Page 14

• Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

  Nick Offerman

  Take A Deep Breath, Position, Breaths

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• In the Keys, a lot of people are stubborn.

  Craig Fugate

  Keys, People

  "With Rita strengthening, Galveston orders evacuation" by Mike M. Ahlers, Jacqui Jeras, Dan Lothian, Rob Marciano, Shelby Linn, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2005.

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• There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Divorce, Broken

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• When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

  Marge Piercy

  Dirt, Committed, Treated

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Ignorant, Virtue

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• Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

  John Daly

  Golf, Alcohol, Brain

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• O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Struggle, Angel

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Fun, Impatient, Traits

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2012.

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• There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Human Heart, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

  Clemence Poesy

  Beautiful, Latin, Philosophy

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• Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

  Thomas Adams

  Heart, Humble, Knees

  Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.229

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• I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Father, Son

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Want

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

  Deepak Chopra

  Vanity, Doors, Unhappy

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Thinking, Passionate, Aries

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

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• From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.

  Napoleon Hill

  Fashion, Opportunity, Men

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• I'm usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don't back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I'd get so mad I'd go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.

  Josie Maran

  Mom, Mad, Bangs

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

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• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Sometimes, Contrary

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• A woman is always Right. But sometimes confused or may be misinformed or rude or stubborn or senseless or unchangeable about her opinions or even down right stupid at times but NEVER wrong... She is always Right.

  Albert Einstein

  Confused, Stupid, Rude

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• I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Ego, Benefits, May

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• As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.

  Charles Kellogg

  Men, Challenges, Landscape

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• Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Winning, Men

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• They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parents’ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.

  Vern Rutsala

  Dog, Teaching, Law

  Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

  John C. Wright

  Strong, Night, Men

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• Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Long, Broken

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