Best Insist Lines
526 Insist quotes by 431 unique authors
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Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It…
— Edward de Bono
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I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
— Michael Longley
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By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong,…
— Seth Godin
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We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love…
— Audre Lorde
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
— A B Simpson
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
— Anthony de Mello
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It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds,…
— Diane Watson
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I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work…
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the…
— David Hume
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If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,…
— Odysseas Elytis
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
— Aaron Sorkin
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Have you ever stopped to think what fun this business of living can be? If you haven't, and if you are one of those who…
— Dorothy Draper
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It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their…
— Joseph Sobran
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an…
— Cynthia Ozick
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They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on
— Richard Armour
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Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?
— Caroline Lucas
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The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
— Anne Tyler
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We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we…
— Ahmad Shah Massoud
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Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro…
— Jason Collins
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India
— Taylor Caldwell
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