Stubborn Quotes - Page 14

• I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.

  James Arthur

  Fighting, Thinking, Surprise

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I was watching Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? And I was thinking, "Why don't they just call that the female seahorse?" You know it's just some stubborn scientist. "Yeah, that one there's the male seahorse." And his assistant's like, "Uh, Bill, that one's having a baby." ... "The male has the baby. You're fired."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Animal

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• There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

  Philip Schultz

  Revenge, Real, Two

  Source: poems.com

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• The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

  Martha Beck

  Persons, Repercussions, Gladness

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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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• Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Complaining, Proposal, Bases

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• The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.

  Paul Theroux

  Order, Class, People

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Love, Marriage, Strong

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

  Paul Keres

  Chess, Resistance, Hopeless

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

  Jeff Bezos

  Done, Might, Something New

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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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• 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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• 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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• As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

  Michelle Malkin

  Persistence, Media, President

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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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