Stubborn Quotes - Page 9

• Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Mules, Jackasses, Humans

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• Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Real, Anger

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

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• Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

  Alex Steffen

  Powerful, Home, Practice

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• He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me many of his poems. I remember many of them. They were silly, you could say, and about love. He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to tell him, What good is all that love doing on paper? I said, Let love write on you for a little. But he was so stubborn. Or perhaps he was only timid.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Silly, Writing, People

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• When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Baby, Real, Shapes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Blessed, Mean

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• You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Loyal, Impatient

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• I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

  Shannon Hale

  Mules, Persist, Know How

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

  Jim Butcher

  Wise, Spring, Rain

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.190, Penguin

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• Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

  Starhawk

  Rain, Flower, Wind

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• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  Rachel Field

  Hope, Cutting, Fire

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

  Fay Weldon

  Poverty, Bounds

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Yardsticks

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Sullen, Teach

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.83

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• I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

  Katherine Paterson

  War, Loss, Reality

  Katherine Paterson (2012). “Read for Your Life #21”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Children, Exercise, Judging

  "Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (Freud: Within and Beyond Culture)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1965.

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• The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Order, White

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Chapter 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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• The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.

  Benjamin Graham

  Horse, Real, Lying

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• There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

  Michael Cera

  Thinking, Hands, Littles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Thinking, Stones

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

  Jim Rowe

  Track, Feelings, Example

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• Weak people can be very stubborn.

  Josephine Tey

  People, Weakness, Weak

  Josephine Tey (1998). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

  Edward Gibbon

  Freedom, Balance, Arms

  Edward Gibbon (1787). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

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