Obstinant Quotes & Sayings

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on. — Michael Sheen

What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire, we do not love them for their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as our self. When — David Whyte

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think. — Cathy Guisewite

Have been slowly making up my mind, seriously & quietly. Either I am loathsome to others, I have decided, or else I shall be a beacon of rich warm light, spreading good and plenty, making things prosper, being a cosmic architect, conquering the world and being respected, myself grinning surreptitiously. Either that, Sirs, or I shall be the most loathsome, useless, and parasitical (on myself) creature in the world. I shall be a denizen of the Underground, or a successful man of the world. There shall be no compromise!!! I mean it. — Jack Kerouac

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. — Michael Badnarik

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs. — Jim Sturgess

Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending. — Francis Chan

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument. — Charles Caleb Colton

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle

Take God's word literally for what is written - nothing less or nothing more. — Valencia Mackie

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego. — Imelda Staunton