Best Obstinacy Sayings
73 Obstinacy quotes by 57 unique authors
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But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought…
— Loretta Chase
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The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil…
— Isabel Allende
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Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone.…
— Leo Tolstoy
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
— Samuel Johnson
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Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing…
— Craig Brown
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He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
— Margot Asquith
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OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.
— Alexander MacLaren
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Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.
— Unknown Author
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The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients
— Proverb
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EGO: three letters that hold you back from saying things your heart is dying to say like, I love you, I miss you and I…
— Prince Nabonky
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You can't change a world that doesn't want to be changed.
— Jeremy Limn
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Many are stubborn in the pursuit of the path that they have chosen, very few in pursuit of the goal.
— Tsepiso Makhubedu
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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
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That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
— Unknown Author
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Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
— Unknown Author
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Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has.
— Thomas Paine
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Stiff opinion, always in the wrong.
— John Dryden
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Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
— Joseph Glanvill
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Every man's life (and ... every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal ... love is a divinity above all accidents,…
— Eleanor Farjeon
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First of all we should be able to differentiate hurdles from any major impediment that would call for careful reconsideration of the project. Instances like…
— T Joseph Benziger
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