Best Recalcitrant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“She was willing to put in as much effort as necessary to discipline Ravan and bring him back to the straight and narrow. But Ravan's mute forbearance wore her down. All her life she had assumed that persistent endeavour was always followed by success. She now realized she was wrong.”

Discipline Recalcitrant Corporal Punishment

Book:Ravan & Eddie

Source: Ravan & Eddie

“My name is Richard Werner. Dick. You can call me Dick.”

Authority Recalcitrant My Name Is Call Me Dick

Book:H: Infidels of Oil

Source: H: Infidels of Oil

“The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.”

Knows Ideas Used Powerful Clear Behavior Train Rewards Employee Incentives Toddler Sticker Potty Recalcitrant

Author:Emily Oster

“Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer.”

Knows Needs Might Age Rocks Activity Intellectual Obvious Proof Tyranny Data Decent Hammers Recalcitrant

Book:Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin

Source: Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.”

Way Stills Reality Felt Photography Understood Photograph Possessed Inaccessible Recalcitrant

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.”

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.”

Humans Social Produce Materials Institutions Human Society Raw Materials Caricatures Social Institutions Recalcitrant

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.”

Children Government Results Responsibility Groups Honor Moon Criticism Management Assuming Workers Ignorant Code Unfair Decency Employers Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”

Wells Children Long Real Self Lines Views Achieve Danger Possibility Habit Discipline Safe Transformation Permanent Firm Internals Lasting Excess Self Discipline Frustrating Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Blakely

“It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.”

“The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.”

Force Drama Historical Persistence Reckoning Recalcitrant

Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.”

Ifs Want Needs Enough Philosophy Citizens Vote Constitution Currents Gathering Want Something Governing Judicial Fiddle Recalcitrant

Author:Robert Bork

“That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.”

World Dream Becoming Harder Reception Recalcitrant

Author:Susan Sontag

“I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.”

People Thinking Ideas Problem Used Certain Fun Responsibility Risk Assuming Patterns Conquer Perceive Bullying Dictator Associates Will Power Provinces Recalcitrant

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together." That was stretching it a bit, since all Charlotte had done was give Sarah lessons in how to avoid fortune hunters, thus ensuring that the recalcitrant girl went right out and married the first one who approached her.”

Giving Firsts Said Done Together Girl Bits Wife Lessons Late Married Fortune Hunters Stretching Charlotte Recalcitrant

Book:Wed Him Before You Bed Him

Source: Wed Him Before You Bed Him

“So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's Digby got to complain about?" Rodney asked. It was obvious from his tone that he felt no sympathy for the recalcitrant commander of Barga Hold. The Baron gestured for Lady Pauline to explain. Apparently," she said,"Halt threw him into the moat.”

Giving Said Ideas Matter Might Felt Busy Obvious Complaining Tone Good Ideas Commanders Halt No Sympathy Moats Recalcitrant

Author:John Flanagan

“I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.”

Ifs Easy Hurt Wonder Imagine Treats Betrayal Partners Transgression Rationalize Business Partners Recalcitrant

Author:Holly Black

“But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.”

Ends Lost Forever Wife Silent Stranger Grieving Dry Fragile Fierce Recalcitrant

Book:The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

“I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.”

Way Littles Persons Whole Body Felt My Own Exterior Elementals Conspirators Recalcitrant

Book:A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

“Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.”

Said Together Marriage Wife Late Recalcitrant

Book:Wed Him Before You Bed Him

Source: Wed Him Before You Bed Him

“Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.”

Men Virtue Originals Disobedience Recalcitrant

Book:The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Source: The Illuminatus! Trilogy

“The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.”

Way Long Quality Records Periods Clothes Species Patterns Conservative Observation Yield Entity Fossils Emperor Static Long Periods Of Time Stasis New Clothes Recalcitrant

Author:Niles Eldredge

“Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.”

Quality Patience Physics Crafts Data Sublime Equipment Recalcitrant

Book:Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam

Source: Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam

“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.”

“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”

Language Animal Vain Cracks Circus Whips Trainers Recalcitrant

Author:Gerald Brenan

“A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind.”

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom