Adamant Quotes

• I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.

  Tim Allen

  Children, People, Motorcycle

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• Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, Fluidity, Undecided

  Speech in House of Commons, 12 Nov. 1936

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• My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

  Paul Lynde

  Father, Interest, Shows

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• Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

  Jeff Garcia

  Opportunity, Way, Individual

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• Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hurt, Truth, Blood

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.238

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• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

  Laozi

  Strong, Power, Water

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• I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

  Luis Miguel

  My Family, Private Life

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• I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

  Michelle Branch

  Long, Prove

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• And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
  With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

  John Dryden

  Time, Writing, Brass

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

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• But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Champion, Tilt

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Apples, Firsts

  'Ruth'

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• Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

  Archie Panjabi

  Ambition, Parent, Supportive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

  Alice Eve

  Dad, Oxford, Careers

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• I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.

  Kevin Costner

  Mother, Dream, Work Ethic

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• Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Cutting, Stones, Firsts

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

  Connie Chung

  Say Anything, Matter, Lawyer

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• See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.

  Walter Scott

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.275

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• As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
  As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,
  As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Science, Moon

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Teenager, Brotherhood, Kenya

  "Get Ready to Compete With the Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt Could Chart a ‘Third Way’" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2011.

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• People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

  Sugata Mitra

  People, Google, Pages

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• I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

  David McCullough

  Art, Teaching, School

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

  Martin Luther

  Yield, Wind, Touching

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.215

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• One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

  Stefon Harris

  Micromanaging, Inspired, Allowing

  "Stefon Harris thinks creativity is overrated". Interview with Matthew Borlik, Michael J. West, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.

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• That the stars are adamant
  everyone understands—
  but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave
  or peace below every gray stone.

  Edith Södergran

  Stars, Giving Up, Blue

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• If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

  Amy Carmichael

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Amy Carmichael (2002). “Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship”, p.10, CLC Publications

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