Obdurately Quotes

#1. [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

Doris Lessing

#2. In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#3. There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

Kurt Angle

#4. Birthdays need to be celebrated. i think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam or promotion or a victory. because to celebrate a birthday means to say to someone "thank you for being you".

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. Music does not need a visa to enter your heart.

Sukant Ratnakar

#6. Angry? Yes, I'm angry: I'd be a lousy lawyer if I weren't.

Russell Banks

#7. Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#8. I hate fighting with you," he whispers.
"Well, stop being such an arse."
He chuckles and the captivating sound reverberates through his chest. He tightens his hold on me. "Arse?"
"Ass."
"I prefer arse."
"You should. It suits you.

E.L. James

#9. Nora & Patch:
N:Is everything a joke to you?
P:Not everything.
N:Like what?
P:You.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#10. Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Albert Bandura

#11. A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

George R R Martin

#12. For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

Nathaniel Philbrick