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I am obstinate and I will not give in.
resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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.
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.
I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.
When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous to abide by the principles that impel men to live in society. There are, therefore, three distinct classes of vice and virtue: the religious, the natural, and the political. These three classes should never be in contradiction with one another.