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
Americans know that a strong alliance of free, sovereign and independent nations is the best defense for our freedoms and for our… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“You will always receive what your attitudes insist of your worthiness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged. — Taisha Abelar Copy Share Image
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas… — John Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
