#stubborn

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. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #during #ever #first #hair

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#came #certain #certain things #fact #germany

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK. ↗

— Mila Kunis

#am #i #i am #ok #stubborn

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#deprive #i #ideas #means #merely

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

#crazy #equally #exciting #match #met

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. ↗

— Elihu Root

#dangerous #differences #incitement #more #most

Ned looked down gravely at the sword in his hands. “This is no toy for children, least of all for a girl. What would Septa Mordane say if she knew you were playing with swords?” “I wasn’t playing,” Arya insisted. “I hate Septa Mordane.” “That’s enough.” Her father’s voice was curt and hard. “The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman. Your mother and I have charged her with the impossible task of making you a lady. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational #stubborn #tomboy #inspirational

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes. ↗

— Earl Butz

#i #made #mistakes #some #stubborn

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#deal #endeavor #existence #facts #fancy

As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We’re not specially courageous, we’re just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.) ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#stubborn #courage