Unyielding Quotes - Page 3

• I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.

  August Wilson

  Believe, Reality, Theatre

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• The unyielding army will not win.

  Laozi

  Army, Winning, Taoism

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• Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea - whether it’s about politics or sports - what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we can’t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology - rigid and unyielding.

  Dan Ariely

  Sports, Letting Go, Loss

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.

  Simon R. Green

  Reality, Men, Victory

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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• I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

  Elizabeth Reyes

  Passion, Writing, Choices

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, Our Generation

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

  James N. Frey

  Drama, Character, Goal

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.

  George W. Dunaway

  Military, Believe, Army

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• Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

  Archibald Alexander

  Stupid, Sin, Blind

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, America, Giving

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2008.

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• Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Father, Character

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• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Fire, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Fighting, Idaho

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

  Winston Graham

  Decision, Arbitrary, Youth

  Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage

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• Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

  Herman E. Daly

  Reality, Growth, Hammers

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• Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sorry, Responsibility, Years

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.

  James Davison Hunter

  Strong, Character, Emotional

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• Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'

  Issan Dorsey

  Teacher, Buddhist, Sorry

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

  Aron Ralston

  Exercise, Desert, Ephemeral

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Selfish, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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