Stubborn famous quotes
04-19-2025
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Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.
-- Adam Hart-Davis -
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
-- Albert Camus -
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
-- Alexander Herzen -
I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
-- Andy Murray -
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
-- Anna Paquin -
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.
-- Anne Bishop -
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 -
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
-- Boris Spassky -
That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake. "And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.
-- C.C. Hunter -
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
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 -
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.
-- Chuck Noll -
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
-- Cleveland Amory -
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
-- Cleveland Amory -
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 -
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
-- Daphne Merkin -
Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
-- David Levithan -
I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
-- Earl Butz -
Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.
-- Elizabeth Ferrars -
Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.
-- Ella Leya -
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 -
You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.
-- Erin Hunter -
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
-- Ernestine Rose -
I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
-- Fay Weldon -
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.
-- Francisco Costa -
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 -
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
-- Gregory Peck -
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.
-- Harry Turtledove -
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content.
-- Helen Barrett Montgomery -
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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 -
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
-- Herbie Mann -
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
-- James Bryant Conant -
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
-- Jeff Bezos -
We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
-- Jim Butcher -
Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
-- John Milton -
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 -
I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.
-- Julie Delpy -
We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn,
-- Julie Larson-Green -
He doesn’t beat me,†I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.†“She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we’re working on that, aren’t we, Ms. Lane?
-- Karen Marie Moning -
I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.
-- Kelly Clarkson -
Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat
-- Kim Hyun-joong -
I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
-- Louis Nizer -
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
-- Lydia Lunch -
Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.
-- Mary Oliver -
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.
-- Matthew Tindal -
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
-- Michael Haneke -
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.
-- Michelle Moran -
I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.
-- Mika -
and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.
-- Nick Offerman -
I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.
-- Noomi Rapace -
Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
-- Norman Doidge -
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
-- Patricia McCormick -
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
-- Paul Keres -
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.
-- Paul Rusesabagina -
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 -
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 -
I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.
-- Ruud Gullit -
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
-- Sarah Addison Allen -
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
-- Shane Carruth -
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
-- Simon Sinek -
Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.
-- Sonia -
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
-- Steven Pressfield -
They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
-- Sugar Ray Leonard -
The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.
-- Sven-Goran Eriksson -
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
-- Thanhha Lai -
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.
-- Theodore Kaczynski -
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.
-- Thomas Kretschmann -
There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.
-- Tom Rob Smith -
Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.
-- Vanessa Carlton -
Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.
-- Walter Matthau -
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.
-- William Butler Yeats -
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
-- William Wordsworth -
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.
-- Willie Aames -
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.
-- Carol Friedman -
That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we`ll do our business. They`re pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.
-- Christopher R. Hill -
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 -
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
-- Isaac D'Israeli -
When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.
-- Jeremy Scott -
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
