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.
Brian Ferneyhough

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katherine Whitehorn

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Gabriel Marcel

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.
Allan Bloom

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
Francis Aungier

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.
Jean de la Bruyere

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.
Akhenaton

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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