Im Stubborn Quotes & Sayings

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out. — Wallace Stegner

I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to a crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick, what could it do? One of his hearers sharply answered, "If I abuse your God, what can He do?" "You would be punished," said the preacher, "when you die." "So my idol will punish you when you die," retorted the Hindu. The tree is known by its fruits. When I have seen amongst them that are called idolaters, men, the like of whom in morality and spirituality and love I have never seen anywhere, I stop and ask myself, "Can sin beget holiness? — Swami Vivekananda

Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Everyone gets to the stage, or should get to it, where it's more important to stop doing things than to keep on trying to do them. — George Johnston

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living. — Paulo Coelho

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway. — Irvin D. Yalom

the false courage of association with a crowd. — Zane Grey

These five teens are convinced it was not a prank. They all believe this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse we hear so much about. But I'm not so sure I believe their story - not this close to Halloween."
The girl with the ponytail frowned at him. "I know what I saw," she said. "They are here! — R.L. Stine

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end. — Walter Matthau

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network. — Charles Dunstone

The revolutionary environmentalists twist science to get what they want, saying they're using the "best available science" to determine public policy, when in fact these are code words for cherry picking from a repertoire of biased science studies. Arguing with the Greenies' faulty science is like shouting into the wind, because they will disregard or minimize evidence that disputes any position they are trying to assert. Your points will be ignored, and you will be demonized. — Brian Herbert

The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I did it on a wing and a prayer, and even though I didn't have enough confidence to do the show, I had a theory; if I assume I have the confidence, I'll tell everyone I'm doing it, and then people will come and we'll actually do it. Once we've done it, I'll have the confidence to do it again. It was some sort of weird positive-thinking confidence mantra because I had to get there. — Eddie Izzard