Stubborn Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

  Armistead Maupin

  Heart, Hopeless Romantic, Want

  Armistead Maupin (2011). “Tales of the City: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independance, reject them. The gods are within, I say, whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Views, Names

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.186, Wizards of the Coast

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• The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

  Jon Krakauer

  Trying, Flaws, Virtue

  "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman". Book by Jon Krakauer, 2009.

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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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• 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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• When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

  David Blunkett

  Travel, Exercise, Giving

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• In my work, hair denotes the flow of life prior to being freed from pain. I fill the hair with human struggles such as deep-rooted anxieties, stubborn attachment to life, obsessions, and restrictions. Appearing fluid like a live organism, the hair symbolizes longevity and patience, but when it appears coarse, the hair expresses an energetic life force and freedom.

  Hyon Gyon

  Pain, Struggle, Anxiety

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

  George F. Kennan

  World, Opinion, Courageous

  "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.

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• My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

  Robert Dilts

  Being Different, Age, Size

  Robert Dilts, Todd Epstein, Robert W. Dilts (1991). “Tools for dreamers: strategies for creativity and the structure of innovation”, Meta Pubns

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• God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

  Robert Wright

  Hatred, Greed, Human Nature

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.315, Vintage

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• Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

  Vincent McNabb

  Hope, Spiritual, Giving

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• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

  Plato

  Plato, People, Atheism

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• Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

  Thanhha Lai

  Mistake, Being Stubborn, Fluent

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• In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

  Dan Barker

  People, Religion, Legends

  Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins (2008). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.299, Ulysses Press

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