That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles. — 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
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
“You will always receive what your attitudes insist of your worthiness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips 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
The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins 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
Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only… — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock 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
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
Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a… — Anonymous 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
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley 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
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long… — Daniel Burnham Copy Share Image
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness… — Richard M. Nixon 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
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