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Tag Name "Obstinate" (61)

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
Jane Austen
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
Ambrose Bierce
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Aristotle
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To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
William Shakespeare
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I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
John Buchan
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.
John Knox
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Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
Alexander H. Stephens
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I once heard a learned man say, Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure.
Khalil Gibran
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
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We must define flattery and praise they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
Louis XVI of France
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
Ambrose Bierce
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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Martial
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I am firm YOU are obstinate HE is a pig-headed fool.
Bertrand Russell
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
Brian Ferneyhough
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
Michel de Montaigne
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Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures for they struggle hard to be such.
Charles Dickens
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
Michel de Montaigne
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Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
David Harsanyi
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A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.
Murray Gurfein
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Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
Samuel Butler
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Gabriel Marcel
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