I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain,… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may… — Lawrence G. Lovasik 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
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to… — Henri Matisse 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
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The overwhelming condemnation makes it clear we have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? .… — Andrew Manis Copy Share Image
Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are… — Doris Egan Copy Share Image
But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same.… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting.… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history… — David Limbaugh 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
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as… — Camille Paglia 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 whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous… — Bertrand Russell 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
Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that… — George Will Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“5:3 Do Not Wither within Your Area of Expertise ... But the lawyer must not allow the client to make a decision… — Peter Siviglia Copy Share Image
no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
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