There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
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: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.
You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
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.
In the Keys, a lot of people are stubborn.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.