That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Jesus was probably a guy who thought, "This thing that I've discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it."… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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