#stubborn

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans

She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beauty #description #devil #loving #strong

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. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#convince #corpse #hit #knock #more

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't. ↗

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

#better #definitely #face #fact #fat

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

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#impossible #obstacle #overcome #stubbornness #stupid

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

— John Dryden

#foreign #his #lash #lion #now

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#always #course #defend #error #great

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#amazed #barack #hear #i #i am

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#bad thing #being #being selfish #helped #selfish