So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
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
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.
Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.