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
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word. — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred… — Armstrong Williams 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
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
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be… — Fay Weldon 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
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
If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts 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
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
In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
I am encouraged by the president-elect's [Donald Trump] insistence that NATO is a commitment that does not change. And his full commitment… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful… — Harrison Salisbury 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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