Quotes About Recalcitrant

#1. Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Abdus Salam

#2. As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.

Sigmund Freud

#3. In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

John Berger

#4. The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.

Hala Alyan

#5. I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.

David Foster Wallace

#6. A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Gerald Brenan

#8. The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

Emily Oster

#9. The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#10. There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God and God alone holds the water that satiates the soul.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. [The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Robert Bork

#12. It's like parenting. The hardest, most intensive time comes at the very beginning. We still love those babies as they grow into daredevil children, recalcitrant teens, and parents setting eyes on their own babes for the first time. We just get a little more sleep while we do it.

Debora Geary

#13. The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

M.H. Abrams

#14. Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.

Rachel Held Evans

#15. I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

Holly Black

#16. But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

Eddie Guerrero

#18. My name is Richard Werner. Dick. You can call me Dick.

Ray Palla

#19. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#20. When language starts transcending materialism, one begins to speak of analogies instead of symbols.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#21. You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

Scott Pelley

#22. I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I'm glad I learned from it.

Johnny Weir

#23. A chicken is the egg's way of making more eggs.

Robert Anton Wilson

#24. You are human and fallible.

Charlotte Bronte

#25. Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it.

Frank Herbert