Best Insist Quotes
526 Insist quotes by 431 unique authors
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I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission…
— Marian Anderson
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It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results…
— Karl Popper
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their…
— Erwin Rommel
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The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed…
— Jeff Cooper
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Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of…
— Rajneesh
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
— Barry Goldwater
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
— Ford Frick
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I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting…
— David Brainerd
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Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry,…
— K.P. Yohannan
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We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
— Sterling W Sill
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Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which…
— John Calvin
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
— Warren Buffett
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a…
— Desmond Morris
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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its…
— Unknown Author
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you…
— Randolph Bourne
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The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in…
— Eugene Delacroix
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,…
— Wendell Berry
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,…
— Wendell Berry
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It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government…
— Christy Clark
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Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children will inherit'
— Barack Obama
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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult…
— Donald Bradman
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