Quotes about Insist

Insist upon yourself. Be original. Votes: 3

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. Votes: 3

Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence. Votes: 3

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Votes: 3

Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children will inherit' Votes: 3

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher. Votes: 3

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. Votes: 3

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can. Votes: 3

Never allow a child to spend all of his allowance. Insist that he set aside a certain amount of money every week and put it in a safe place, where you can get it if you need to buy beer. Votes: 3

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Votes: 2

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Votes: 2

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. Votes: 2

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. Votes: 2

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do. Votes: 2

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road. Votes: 2

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Votes: 2

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. Votes: 2

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. Votes: 2

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. Votes: 2

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. Votes: 2

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Votes: 2

One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick. Votes: 2

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. Votes: 2

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn. Votes: 2

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless. Votes: 2

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely. Votes: 2

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process. Votes: 2

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Votes: 2

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. Votes: 2

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. Votes: 2

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. Votes: 2

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. Votes: 2

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. Votes: 2

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again? Votes: 2

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. Votes: 2

Nature does not have to insist. Votes: 0

We insist, it seems, on living. Votes: 0

If you insist, how can I resist? Votes: 0

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? Votes: 0

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. Votes: 0

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools. Votes: 0

Only those with no memory insist on their originality. Votes: 0

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity. Votes: 0

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings. Votes: 0

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. Votes: 0

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'. Votes: 0

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. Votes: 0

You can insist on a different end to the story. Votes: 0

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing! Votes: 0

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty. Votes: 0

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing. Votes: 0

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled. Votes: 0

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. Votes: 0

Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist? Votes: 0

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions. Votes: 0

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal. Votes: 0

I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord. Votes: 0

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think. Votes: 0

I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too. Votes: 0

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct? Votes: 0

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it. Votes: 0

If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse. Votes: 0

And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive. Votes: 0

I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem? Votes: 0

I absolutely insist that all my boys are in bed before breakfast Votes: 0

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates Votes: 0

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself. Votes: 0

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. Votes: 0

My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it. Votes: 0

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right. Votes: 0

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist. Votes: 0

... nonbelievers will insist on their convictions regardlesshow many miracles are presented to them Votes: 0

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance. Votes: 0

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface. Votes: 0

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. Votes: 0

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse. Votes: 0

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed." Votes: 0

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. Votes: 0

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. Votes: 0

To both of them I insist: STOP INCITING HATE BEFORE YOU GET PEOPLE KILLED!!!!! Votes: 0

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth. Votes: 0

If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend! Votes: 0

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues. Votes: 0

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love. Votes: 0

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited. Votes: 0

They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans. Votes: 0

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. Votes: 0

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. Votes: 0

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. Votes: 0

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. Votes: 0

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. Votes: 0

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth. Votes: 0

If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you. Votes: 0

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. Votes: 0

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Votes: 0

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it. Votes: 0

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. Votes: 0

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! Votes: 0

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy. Votes: 0

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. Votes: 0

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. Votes: 0

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. Votes: 0

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction Votes: 0

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. Votes: 0

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything. Votes: 0

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War? Votes: 0

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted. Votes: 0

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. Votes: 0

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. Votes: 0

I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions. Votes: 0

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them. Votes: 0

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. Votes: 0

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing. Votes: 0

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on Votes: 0

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Votes: 0

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being. Votes: 0

Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person? Votes: 0

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. Votes: 0

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need. Votes: 0

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. Votes: 0

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. Votes: 0

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. Votes: 0

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended. Votes: 0

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different. Votes: 0

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership? Votes: 0

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God. Votes: 0

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. Votes: 0

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves. Votes: 0

Money wont make you happy but if you insist on being miserable, you may as well be rich Votes: 0

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. Votes: 0

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9. Votes: 0

Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity. Votes: 0

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? Votes: 0

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God. Votes: 0

If you insist on the chase then you'd better start running 'cause dude, you're in for a marathon Votes: 0

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. Votes: 0

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership? Votes: 0

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Votes: 0

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation. Votes: 0

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. Votes: 0

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. Votes: 0

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. Votes: 0

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists. Votes: 0

The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny. Votes: 0

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ... Votes: 0

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. Votes: 0

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. Votes: 0

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. Votes: 0

People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'. Votes: 0

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do. Votes: 0

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. Votes: 0

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes. Votes: 0

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. Votes: 0

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. Votes: 0

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. Votes: 0

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them. Votes: 0

I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out. Votes: 0

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter. Votes: 0

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist. Votes: 0

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment. Votes: 0

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. Votes: 0

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground? Votes: 0

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. Votes: 0

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there. Votes: 0

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. Votes: 0

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them. Votes: 0

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. Votes: 0

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music. Votes: 0

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly? Votes: 0

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. Votes: 0

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. Votes: 0

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. Votes: 0

Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you. Votes: 0

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels Votes: 0

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. Votes: 0

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them." Votes: 0

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing. Votes: 0

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. Votes: 0

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. Votes: 0

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India. Votes: 0

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean. Votes: 0

Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity. Votes: 0

I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers. Votes: 0

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so. Votes: 0

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India Votes: 0

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. Votes: 0

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) Votes: 0

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. Votes: 0

Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well. Votes: 0

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. Votes: 0

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember. Votes: 0

I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals. Votes: 0

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do. Votes: 0

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on Votes: 0

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything. Votes: 0

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? Votes: 0

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model. Votes: 0

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys. Votes: 0

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type Votes: 0

My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs. Votes: 0

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. Votes: 0

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar Votes: 0

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved. Votes: 0

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from~? Votes: 0

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. Votes: 0

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love Votes: 0

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that. Votes: 0

Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot? Votes: 0

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. Votes: 0

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution. Votes: 0

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. Votes: 0

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes. Votes: 0

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. Votes: 0

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from? Votes: 0

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. Votes: 0

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. Votes: 0

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? Votes: 0

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation. Votes: 0

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation. Votes: 0

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans. Votes: 0

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. Votes: 0

She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy. Votes: 0

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. Votes: 0

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. Votes: 0

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. Votes: 0

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. Votes: 0

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity. Votes: 0

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. Votes: 0

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on. Votes: 0

To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one's right to photograph. You're flexing that right. Votes: 0

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing. Votes: 0

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes. Votes: 0

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. Votes: 0

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation. Votes: 0

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights. Votes: 0

My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. "˜If you insist "¦ Votes: 0

I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings. Votes: 0

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river. Votes: 0

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like. Votes: 0

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. Votes: 0

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature. Votes: 0

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person! Votes: 0

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing. Votes: 0

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion. Votes: 0

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Votes: 0

You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good Votes: 0

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." Votes: 0

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible. Votes: 0

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin. Votes: 0

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon. Votes: 0

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. Votes: 0

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar. Votes: 0

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations. Votes: 0

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised. Votes: 0

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants. Votes: 0

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be. Votes: 0

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer. Votes: 0

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded. Votes: 0

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities. Votes: 0

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. Votes: 0

All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist. Votes: 0

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself. Votes: 0

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right. Votes: 0

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position. Votes: 0

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist. Votes: 0

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out. Votes: 0

We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it. Votes: 0

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me. Votes: 0

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment. Votes: 0

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. Votes: 0

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself. Votes: 0

When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end... You will never regret it! Votes: 0

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? Votes: 0

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist." Votes: 0

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams. Votes: 0

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly? Votes: 0

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it. Votes: 0

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame. Votes: 0

Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241- Votes: 0

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist! Votes: 0

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. Votes: 0

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him. Votes: 0

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length ... Votes: 0

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts? Votes: 0

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20. Votes: 0

I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights. Votes: 0

If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines. Votes: 0

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in. Votes: 0

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. Votes: 0

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power. Votes: 0

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process. Votes: 0

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you. Votes: 0

Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts. Votes: 0

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments. Votes: 0

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward. Votes: 0

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance. Votes: 0

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true. Votes: 0

If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer. Votes: 0

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together. Votes: 0

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet. Votes: 0

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. Votes: 0

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. Votes: 0

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change. Votes: 0

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. Votes: 0

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood. Votes: 0

If you insist on digging for the truth, you can start at the cemetery. But not the one on the wealthy side of town, because I already dug up everything of value. Votes: 0

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. Votes: 0

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. Votes: 0

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these. Votes: 0

Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil") Votes: 0

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food. Votes: 0

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms. Votes: 0

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love. Votes: 0

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Votes: 0

The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists. Votes: 0

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better." Votes: 0

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too. Votes: 0

Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up. Votes: 0

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination. Votes: 0

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe. Votes: 0

The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country. Votes: 0

Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves. Votes: 0

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. Votes: 0

Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation. Votes: 0

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction. Votes: 0

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur. Votes: 0

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts. Votes: 0

Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter. Votes: 0

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. Votes: 0

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one. Votes: 0

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow Votes: 0

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards. Votes: 0

If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn. Votes: 0

They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport. Votes: 0

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. Votes: 0

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. Votes: 0

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. Votes: 0

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves. Votes: 0

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day. Votes: 0

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. Votes: 0

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him. Votes: 0

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime. Votes: 0

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. Votes: 0

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." Votes: 0

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. Votes: 0

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. Votes: 0

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. Votes: 0

Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves. Votes: 0

When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing. Votes: 0

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor Votes: 0

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist. Votes: 0

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person. Votes: 0