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Unyielding Quotes

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

H. P. Lovecraft
Men, Unyielding, Outsiders
H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Outsider”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

H. P. Lovecraft
Men, Glasses, Unyielding
H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, p.10, H. P. Lovecraft

Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

George Eastman
Children, Unyielding, Faces

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Robert Silverberg
Doe, Unyielding
Robert Silverberg (2014). “The Stochastic Man”, p.70, Open Road Media

We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

Aron Ralston
Exercise, Desert, Unyielding
Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

Winston Graham
Decision, Arbitrary, Unyielding
Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

Ross Douthat
Party, Choices, Unyielding

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Oliver North
Children, Drug, Unyielding

No, I'm too tired to run, and you're too fast. You'd only catch me." "That's right, luv." Softly, but with unyielding resonance. "if you run from me, I'll chase you. And I'll find you. Bones said.

Jeaniene Frost
Running, Tired, Unyielding

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

Harry Belafonte
Thinking, Unyielding, Taught
Source: www.yesmagazine.org

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

Bill Moyers
War, Gorges, Unyielding
"Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

Archibald Alexander
Stupid, Unyielding, Sin
Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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