Insisted Quotes

180 quotes by 162 authors

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a… — Martin Van Buren
Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival… — Peter Birks
Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire. — Tran Thien Khiem
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it… — Brand Blanshard
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of… — William Henry Bragg
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day. — Jay McInerney
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that… — Jennifer Garner
My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother… — Ariel Winter
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an… — Rene Auberjonois
President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign… — Dan Rather
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious… — Gwen Ifill
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga
Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion… — Jacob Schiff
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable… — Herodotus
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often… — Helen Simonson
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and… — Galileo Galilei
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey

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