#stubborn

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cunning #fight #life #most #personal

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. ↗

— John Dryden

#foreign #his #lash #lion #now

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#best #clinging #opinion #proof #stubborn

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#andy #andy warhol #art #art world #artists

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#atrocious #devoted #effort #fanatical #only

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

— Mila Kunis

#am #i #i am #ok #stubborn

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#believed #christ #fit #god #him

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

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture