Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'
They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.
During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.
I think it's important that kids see another kid - Coraline - who doesn't have guns, she doesn't have super-powers, she's not a super-genius. To see a pretty normal kid - I mean, she's probably a little more curious, a little more stubborn, but she's a real kid - go up against something that's truly dark and evil and powerful. And she does win.
I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.
I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.
I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
