Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior. — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share Image
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness. — Jack O'Neill Copy Share Image
It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react.… — Camilo Villegas Copy Share Image
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring… — Paul Krugman 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside. — Kim Dae Jung Copy Share Image
“...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better. — Walt Disney 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
“It's not about insisting one's right; it's about maintaining everyone's peace.” — Joey Lawsin 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
Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism… — Naomi Wolf 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
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
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