Insist Upon Quotes

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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach… — Anne Bronte
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
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
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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… — William Butler
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have… — John Berger
I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the… — J. Edgar Hoover
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. — Maya Angelou
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe
Youâ€™re walking down lifeâ€™s road, societyâ€™s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you canâ€™t get from under that foot. And you… — Odetta
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. — Andrew Johnson
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
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly? — A B Simpson
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
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
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
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to… — Grantly Dick-Read
We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without… — James Davison Hunter
If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going… — Zig Ziglar

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