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Obstinate Quotes (page 2)

I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky. Marcel Proust
Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead... Djuna Barnes
The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete. Barbara Kingsolver
What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ...She is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for entreaty, and too weak for reason. Fanny Burney
Jean Cocteau quote: "The obstinate miner of the void exploits his fertile mine"
The obstinate miner of the void exploits his fertile mine Jean Cocteau
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter. Mark Helprin
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
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other. Barbra Streisand
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. J. G. Holland
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. Eugen Herrigel
Katharine Whitehorn quote: "I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. Katharine Whitehorn
Margaret Thatcher quote: "Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. Margaret Thatcher
William Cobbett quote: "Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering..."
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. William Cobbett
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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