Stubborn
Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
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Stubborn Quotations
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
John Adams
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden
Stubborn Translations
stubborn in Dutch is halsstarrig, hardnekkig, koppig
stubborn in Latin is pertinax, pugnax
stubborn in Spanish is cabezudo, terco
stubborn in Swedish is envis
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