Insistent Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. — Jarvis Cocker
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap… — Margaret J. Wheatley
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. — Laozi
In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not… — David de Kretser
Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the… — Brian Froud
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense… — Mary Meeker
Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with… — Spencer W. Kimball
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim… — Alva Myrdal
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a… — Michael Haneke
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I… — Leni Riefenstahl
By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death — Edmond Jabes
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent… — Paul Simon
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can… — Rabindranath Tagore
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. — Max Lerner
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural… — Paul Hawken

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