Best Insist Proverbs
526 Insist quotes by 431 unique authors
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Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the…
— Ezra Pound
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My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite…
— Wallace Shawn
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IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
— Veronica Roth
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I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of…
— Tim Cook
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When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
— Rupert Murdoch
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It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
— Jacques Chirac
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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There…
— Stanley Elkin
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I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that…
— John Oliver
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Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
— Eugene Ormandy
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and…
— Benjamin Carson
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If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and…
— Wayne Dyer
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Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't,…
— John Huston
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Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and…
— Leonard Bernstein
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To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you…
— Edith Sitwell
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?
— Jimmy Connors
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Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not…
— Lionel Trilling
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