My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting… — Marilyn French 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
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
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
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my… — Kevin Shelley Copy Share Image
I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of… — Andrew Weil 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
So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the… — Rob Bell 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
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no… — Carl Jung 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
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to… — Wim Wenders 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
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights. — Vladimir Sorokin 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
Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness. — Jack O'Neill Copy Share Image
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
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
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
