Mary Astell Quotes

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

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

I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.

You can't stop me, so step aside.

Ain't nothing going to hold me back.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

We played by feel. We felt as though you could put us on any stage, and we would find a way to win that crowd over. We had that attitude: We can't fail. You might not like it right now, but you will.

I like to get in the mindset of the honey badger when I go into contact. There's no doubts, no fears. If you can do that as a human, you're killin' it.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

There is no turning back.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

I'm un-smiteable. That's something I realized very young.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.