we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Copy Share Image
Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin? — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life,… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
