Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides… — Joanne Fluke Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little;… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
“13. The actions of Obstinate and Pliable confirm the simple lesson that the world does not easily or readily give up its… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life." Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection." "I'm going to name… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. — Suzanne Curchod Necker Copy Share Image
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. — Francis Aungier Copy Share Image
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
