Insisting Quotes

103 quotes by 97 authors

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be… — Roy Barnes
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the… — Wim Wenders
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of… — Bill McKibben
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in… — Thorstein Veblen
Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job… — Christopher Dodd
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in… — Naomi Klein
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better. — Walt Disney
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:… — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. — Ann Oakley
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why… — George Will
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. — Naomi Wolf
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being… — Helen Fielding
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. — Ana Castillo
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash… — Alice Hoffman
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature;… — James Joyce
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder… — Andrew Sullivan

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