Quotes of Inflexible - somelinesforyou

“ In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ I'm determined to make partner in this firm, even if I have to be a lesbian partner. ”

- Cynthia Nixon

“ There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ I have tried so hard to do the right. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ We are determined to do everything we can. ”

- Ehud Barak

“ You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking… Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor. ”

- Ralph Bunche

“ From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. ”

- Ralph Bunche

“ And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. ”

- Phoebe Cary

“ It was not… that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down. ”

- P. D. James

“ Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! ”

- Aaliyah

“ That's why it's even more important than ever before to get the cycle moving in the other direction. ”

- Colin Powell

“ The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ”

- Marcel Pagnol

“ In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ”

- Iris Murdoch

“ The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ”

- Marguerite Gardiner

“ Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ”

- David Hume

“ German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ”

- Everett Dirksen

“ In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. ”

- Wendell Willkie

“ Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ”

- Paul Gauguin

“ I am a man of substance and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ”

- Ralph Ellison

“ That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. ”

- Daniel Okrent

“ Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress… ”

- Frank Goble

“ Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre
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