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
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
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
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — George Bernard Shaw 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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even… — Murray Gurfein 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
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James Copy Share Image
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and… — Charles Dickens 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
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens 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
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours… — Franziska van Almsick Copy Share Image
