Best Insist Upon Quotes
53 Insist Upon quotes by 48 unique authors
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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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Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
— Fran Lebowitz
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
— Herman Melville
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I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which,…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist…
— John F. Kennedy
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
— Tommy Shaw
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether…
— Henry James
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Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
— Albert Einstein
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Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
— Bertrand Russell
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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to…
— Jules Verne
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I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet…
— L. Frank Baum
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Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered…
— James Jones
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OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn…
— Isaac Newton
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Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?
— Charles Bukowski
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If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Insist upon yourself. Be original.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore…
— Alan Dundes
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Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.
— George F Will
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The man who insist upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept Regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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