Obdurate Quotes

#1. The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

Seneca The Younger

#2. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

William Cowper

#3. Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

John Dryden

#4. Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz! Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone.

Mervyn Peake

#5. Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#6. Our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

Bonnie Friedman

#7. The past is obdurate.

Stephen King

#8. Because the past isn't just obdurate; it's in harmony with both itself and the future.

Stephen King

#9. Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Orville Dewey

#10. The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

Stephen King

#11. He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style.

Michael Chabon

#12. The Navajos were another matter. Theirs was a sprawling nation, wealthy in stock, obdurate in its ways, open to change but only on its terms.

Hampton Sides

#13. But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

John Milton

#14. The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

Jonathan Kozol

#15. The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Joanne Harris

#16. As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

Mackenzie Davis

#17. A heart of stone doesn't know any better.

Toba Beta

#18. You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.

Eric Thomas

#19. Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

Peter Diamandis

#20. The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.

Charles De Lint

#21. For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Pericles

#22. If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Cate Blanchett

#23. Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

Ted Danson

#24. When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.

Sigmar Polke

#25. I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Oscar Wilde

#26. It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

Tana French

#27. It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.

Dennis E. Adonis

#28.
Focus on someone else's problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice.
From now on you'll have to live in a world you didn't make up. Horrible thought.

Josh Lanyon

#29. Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

Shahrukh Khan

#30. The kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio ...

Tom McNeal

#31. I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

David Letterman