Stubbornly Unyielding Quotes & Sayings

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak. — Fannie Flagg

Allegories drawn to great length will always break. — Samuel Johnson

If I'm walking into heartbreak, that's my own choice, Eden. — Jasinda Wilder

And not a vanity is given in vain. — Alexander Pope

Thus I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses ... along with anxiety and violence. — Walter Brueggemann

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. — William James

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know. — Pete Hamill

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could. — Eddie Vedder