Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

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

— Geoffrey Zakarian

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

— Edward M. Lerner

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…

— Wole Soyinka

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't mind if someone wants to give us advice; we only object if they insist we take it.

— Anonymous

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…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Don't resist. Don't insist. Just Move over. Its's a divine takeover.”

— Maisie A. Smikle

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

— Terry Pratchett

Before you insist someone changes, remember first how hard it is to change yourself.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I'm tired of the way we both pretend. Tired of always wanting and never giving in. I can feel it in my skin, see…

— Cora Carmack

“I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are…

— Anne Fine

“No one else is going to pay you what you deserve unless you insist on it”

— Liz Ryan

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student…

— Alan Dundes

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

— Norman Borlaug

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

— Isadora Duncan