Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other… — Brian Ferneyhough 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
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all… — John Knox Copy Share Image
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are… — Thomas Aquinas 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
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling… — John Webster Copy Share Image
They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.” — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I am B rave. I am O bstinate. I am L ionhearted. I am D auntless. Hence, I am BOLD.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“obstinate, adj. Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A… — Murray Gurfein Copy Share Image
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
