Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
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I'm going to be stubborn and stay on the ball. I was more of a pull hitter (last year). It's not the way I had approached things in the first 10 years, so I don't know why in my 11th and 12th years I started changing. ... Not this spring.
Jim Edmonds
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott
Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little.
Yuriko Koike
If the owners are playing a high-stakes game of chicken, they'd be better off playing it with anybody else in the world besides hockey players. Because of all sports, we're probably the most stubborn, pig-headed players.
Scott Walker
That's why he's so stubborn - he is an ideologue, and he's not trying to cut deals or do things that are popular with other Republicans.
Athan Manuel
We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
Dan Miller
He loved his home. He loved his daughters. And he loved me. He was very stubborn but very fair and honest.
Patricia Lewis
He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.
Sheikh Ahmad
That's all he wants to do, to be part of something to help people. Yea, we worried (about the firefighting dangers) but you just don't think it's going to happen to you. And you can't tell him he can't do something. He's just a stubborn cowboy.
Megan Bowes
I always say that it's much more powerful to be good than to be right. Why? Because good guides us in moving towards that which is good. Being right makes a deadlock, an enemy, and it sucks us down from expanding our perception. It also frightens the other person and makes the position more stubborn.
Patricia Sun
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
Ferdinand Foch
What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.
Christian Bale
We're pretty stubborn that way.
Justin Griffith
You can't be stubborn. You can't try to run the ball at all costs.
Mick Miyamoto
The gap today is so small, why not go ahead and follow the lead of other majors, ... But as with Augusta, sex discrimination in sports doesn't have to make sense if folks enforcing it are stubborn enough.
Martha Burk
We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.
Susan Hill
Cooley and I have been together for 20 years now. It hasn't exactly been an overnight success, ... We're the poster children for stubborn persistence.
Patterson Hood
He was set in his ways. He was stubborn.
Alvin Brooks
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men.
Kahlil Gibran
Being either stubborn or persistent, depending on whether this month's forecast turns out to be right, I believe that the March employment report should, finally, show the long-awaited jobs pop.
Russell Sheldon
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
Gregory Peck
One thing that I think we should have done more was run the football, ... In the past, I've been very stubborn, and we should have given (Bines and Hicks) more chances to carry the ball. We have the ability to run the football and control the clock, and we have to do that and keep our defense off the field.
Dana Walker
Before my uncle passed away, I promised him I would audition for the school play. Alice is fun to play, and she is really stubborn.
Katlyn Watanuki
On offense, we'll score a lot of points. We'll make our opponents respect our quarterback's learning ability, and make them guard sideline to sideline. Defensively, we're going to make them hurt. If they want to run, and be stubborn there, we're going to match up with them.
Tim Pierson
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
Mark Twain
We have a 3-yard, 4-yard, 5-yard, 20-yard premise. It's going to be 3, 4, 5, then 3, 4, 5, then we're going to hit a 20. That's how we've done it, and we've hit a lot bigger runs than that. We're stubborn. We know we're going to keep doing what we do.
Alge Crumpler
Some guys are very stubborn because it's not affecting them. They're sleeping.
Carole Collins
This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.
Gerhard Schroeder
We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn.
Patrick Surtain
It is disappointing that a stubborn minority of pupils, estimated at 8,000 in just 4% of secondary schools, remain determined to jeopardise their education and their futures through persistent truancy. While the causes of truancy are complex and challenging, we will focus on this minority who are responsible for much of unauthorised absence.
Jacqui Smith
It's the same old stubborn regime playing the same old tricks. This is a police state and they don't give up.
Gameela Ismail
I might have been a little stubborn there, ... But everything was going for us, so I put a field goal out of my mind.
Sonny Lubick
The thing that kills people isn't so much the wind, ... It's the storm surge. I'm worried that on that peninsula that sticks out into the ocean, there's going to be grave loss of life. There are a lot of stubborn Cajuns down there who will say, 'We've never evacuated before,' and they're going to be on their rooftops. I'm really worried about Gulfport and Biloxi, (Miss.), too.'
Cindy Walker
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory
She was so determined to walk, so stubborn, and she did it.
Patty Woodall
I'm stubborn, I'm a man-to-man guy. I want to go hat-on-hat.
Carlton Valentine
All I know is I'm saying this, and somebody's going to read it and say I'm a male chauvinist. That's not the case. It is just different with men and boys with women. It's like raising your kids. Boys are more stubborn. As good, as strong as a mother is, sometimes it takes the father to step in. Oh boy, I can see it now: 'Hakeem is a male chauvinist.' That is not the case.
Hakeem Olajuwon
He was a little stubborn, but all is well. Everyone is well and we are all relieved.
Melissa Joan Hart
We have a lot of work to do. But I am stubborn. If I do not get an answer to a problem, I go to the next person. I want to get help, so people do not suffer like me.
Machot Lat
The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount of Presidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin can conceal the truth about the steady downward spiral in our national security since President Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Edward M. Kennedy
Both sides are going to have to have a conciliatory frame of mind and a willingness to meet half way; you cannot dig your feet in. If both sides are stubborn as a Billy goat, nothing's going to be done.
Eddie Quinn
Facts are stubborn things.
Ebenezer Elliott
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