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“She accepts the world as it is and the world accepts her thus. She is not mastered. What is done to her cannot confine what she will do.”

Strong Strength Battle Warrior Willpower Sailor Weapon Unyielding Masterless

Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant

Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant

“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place.”

Strength Demand Forgiveness Chains Forgive Unyielding Bound

Book:Ancillary Sword

Source: Ancillary Sword

“No living thing ever defeated Tain Hu in battle. Only the tide could fight her. Only the moon and the sea together could bring her down.”

Love Sea Strength Battle Moon Fight Willpower Unyielding Tide Unbending

Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant

Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant

“The brave may fall, but never yield.”

Courage Bravery Remembrance Fortitude Unyielding

Author:Latin proverb

“ROOK STIRLING: Aya Atum solkat kallas pana! “May Atum’s descending sun finish you!” IKO: Nog e nebu o’ves sol dara’ka. “Not until the gold from the sun dwindles away.”

Determined Spirit Comics Unyielding Curses Lunora Atum

Author:H.S. Crow

“To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will’s parabatai, Jem.”

Love Fierce Will Herondale Tessa Gray Unyielding Protectiveness James Herondale James Carstairs Lucie Herondale

Book:The Whitechapel Fiend

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“She was the rock against which the surf broke. These males would break against her, too.”

Strong Break Nesta Archeron Nesta A Court Of Silver Flames Unyielding Force To Be Reckoned With

Book:A Court of Silver Flames

Source: A Court of Silver Flames

“She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before. and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realise why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did.”

Stubborn Will Unyielding Resistant

Book:The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”

People Fear Cases Fire Destruction Inner Peace Forests Burning Lazy Permit Optimist Unyielding Woods And Forests Insensibility

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“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.”

Sin Stupid My Friends Blind Conviction Convinced Core Blindness Iniquity Hardness Unyielding

Book:Practical Truths

Source: Practical Truths

“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”

Ifs Different Character Sides Goal Results Achieve Drama Conflict Stakes Both Sides Unyielding

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.”

Men Force Darkness Struggle Majors Naked Theme Worms Unyielding

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.”

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.”

Hands Stones Weight Rounds Familiar Pockets Unyielding

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

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

Book:The Stochastic Man

Source: The Stochastic Man

“The time has come when we must take an unyielding stand. We must shore up our spiritual underpinnings, listen to the prophets of God, and follow their counsel.Said Paul to Timothy: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.” (2 Timothy 1:7-8.)It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.”

“Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.”

Philosophy Despair Built Foundation Firm Unyielding Firm Foundation

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.”

Men Liberty Hero Honor Dignity Saint Treasure Resolve Humankind Nelson Incomparable Unyielding Unconquerable

Author:Morgan Freeman

“With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.”

“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”

Real Able Given Consciousness Moral Principles Information Morality Bases Absolutes Data Intimate Revelations Distinction Opposition Innate Exceed Unyielding

Author:African Spir

“My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.”

Mother Father Married Determination Dignity Twenties Eight Loyalty Thirty Fierce Unyielding Steadiness

Author:Jill Lepore

“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.”

Children Moral Middle Drug Our Children Sake Indifference Opposition Middle Ground Unyielding

Author:Oliver North

“In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.”

Art Feelings Memories Theory Walking Skills Discovery Instinct Details Enormous Denial Speculation Psychiatry Seriousness Psychoanalysis Unyielding

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.”

Thinking Ends Facts Reality Film Culture Creating Appreciate Pops Firm Islands Streams Ignored Pop Culture Great Experiences Creating Something Unyielding

Author:Barry Ptolemy

“Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.”

Country Religious Principles Atheism Majors Threat Intellect Positive Atheism Obedience Aspiration Far Away Secular Renunciation Unyielding Supernatural Beings Religious Texts

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“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.”

Knows Hard Enough Decision Youth Prove Standards Arbitrary Unyielding

Book:Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791

Source: Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791

“Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.”

Strong Break Mountain Instinct Rhythm Poetic Primitive Break Out Unyielding

Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.”

Reality Growth Moral Argument Hammers Crushed Unyielding Anvils Chestnuts

Author:Herman E. Daly

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

Choices Party Position Democratic Contemporary American Politics Democratic Party Stance Unyielding

Author:Ross Douthat

“Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.”

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“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.)”

Firsts Children Ends Faces Asks Company Cameras Firm Your Face Meaningless Explaining Snaps Rudeness Shutters Unyielding Consonants Kodak

Author:George Eastman

“A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.”

Tree Wind Gentle Cracks Decree Triumphant Unyielding

Author:Laozi

“Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.”

Men May War Winning Gun Bombs Yield Unyielding Coerce

Author:Bobby Sands

“Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.”

People World Years Home Fighting Three Community Church Half Return Inspired Around The World Coming Home Pastor Freedom Of Religion Half A Year Idaho Unyielding

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Want War Appetite Unyielding Gorges

Author:Bill Moyers

“And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”

Ifs Giving Stills Might America Opportunity Nations Wealth Liberty Democracy Achieve Arms Genius Tomorrow Ideals Unions Endure Scales Tonight Beacons Unyielding True Strength True Genius

Author:Barack Obama

“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.”

Thinking Mother Felt Born Missing Illusion Infinite Distance Intimacy Mirages Unyielding Missing Her Thinking Of Her

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“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.”

Knows Men Stills Known Century Cold Fingers Glasses Stranger Surface Touched Outsiders Polished Abomination Gilded Unyielding

Book:The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

Source: The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

“The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152”

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

Mind Strong Difficult Wind Yoga Sacred Ancient Restless Krishna Unyielding

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”

“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.”

Ifs Said Running Tired Bones Resonance Catch Me Unyielding

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.”

Years Firsts Joy Found Felt Responsibility Known Saws First Time Sorry Trials Spite Togetherness Soothing Unyielding

Author:Orhan Pamuk

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

Knows Men Stills Century Stranger Outsiders Unyielding

Book:The Outsider

Source: The Outsider

“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.”

Universe Force Environment Planets Exercise Bounds Despite Chains Desert Delicate Defeated Our Environment Ephemeral Unfathomable Insignificance Food Chain Unyielding

Book:127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Source: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

“You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.”

Mind Has Beens Made Social Acting Responsibility Vision Integrity Independent Selfish Judgement Arrogant Sole Venture Unyielding Anti Social

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen”

Thinking Knows Kind Self Perfect Cases Self Control Eclipse Unyielding Twilight Edward

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; then he put both arms around her and pulled her against him. His lips softened. She could feel the rapid beat of his heart, taste the sweetness of apples still on his mouth. She wound her hands into his hair, as she'd wanted to do since the first time she'd seen him. His hair curled around her fingers, silky and fine. Her heart was hammering, and there was a rushing sound in her ears, like beating wings”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls