#stubborn

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

— Earl Butz

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For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#i #i think #missionary #persuasive #stubborn

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them." "And there’s a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open." Ash & Urian ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#grudge #revenge #stubborn #violence #forgiveness

Alek didn’t move, unsure what he could say or do to erase her pain. Like the rest of the Draig, he was a warrior, a fighter, used to the action of doing what needed to be done. But in this situation there was no giant fanged yorkin to hunt, no Var army to battle. There was only reality and the flawed nature of imperfect men. - Dragon Lords 6: The Stubborn Lord by Michelle M. Pillow - Coming 2013 ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#michelle-pilow #stubborn-lord #men

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #resolve #richelle #richelle-goodrich #stubbornness

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. ↗

— Willie Aames

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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. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #dictates #evidence #facts #inclinations

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up

I'm the most stubborn person I know. ↗

— Alice Walker

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