Insistence Quotes
99 Insistence quotes by 92 unique authors
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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up…
— John Green
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Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
— Alan Watts
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the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In…
— Jon Krakauer
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None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and…
— Bell Hooks
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say…
— Barack Obama
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
— W.C. Fields
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The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the…
— Selwyn Hughes
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand…
— Conrad Wolfram
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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
— Ban Ki-moon
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are…
— Daniel Burnham
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an…
— Laura Riding
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In a flashback, a group of girls playing Triple Dog, a game of dares. Chapin Wright (Britt Robertson) triple-dog-dares a popular girl among them, Stacy…
— Shaniaacannon
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Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
— John Arbuthnot Fisher
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The insistence of childhood come back to me / But today no one can take care of them
— Mak_786
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Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character.
— Barack Obama
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Married woman dating a single man shall not get out of the relationship unhurt, no matter what!! It's just lust; the object of your adoration…
— Kemmy Nola
Who Wrote These Insistence Quotes
92 authors contributed a total of 99 Insistence Quotes, led by these top contributors: