These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness is a weapon. People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened—be it dignity, honor,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. — Confucius Copy Share Image
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
