Stubbornness Quotes

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

With all the global warming going around nowadays, it would only take the stubbornness of a mule and the patience of a sitting duck to achieve what no man has ever done before – namely melt the ice in a wax figure’s beaten heart that was chopped off and hidden 50 meters under the polar ice caps in Alaska, to protect it from feeling.

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.