Insistence Quotes

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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking… — Alfred North Whitehead
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn… — Jessica Valenti
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of… — J. R. D. Tata
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and… — Ben Kingsley
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it… — Roy Blount, Jr.
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. — Mike Rowe
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has… — John Ralston Saul
Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God,… — James MacDonald
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and… — Carlos Castaneda
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power… — Paul Fussell
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied,… — Thomas Merton
Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the… — Victor Davis Hanson
Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. — Robert H. Schuller
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will… — Esther Hicks
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it… — Emma Goldman
Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. — Myles Munroe
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and… — Leonard Jacobson
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.… — Jimmy Carter
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain… — Philip Kapleau

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