Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them

I won't give up till we surrender!

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

Give up trying to make me give up

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

I'm not apologizing to anyone. I'll apologize when hell freezes over.

I have one one type: Eva Lauren Tramell. That’s it.” I rolled my eyes. “Okay. Whatever.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.