Insists Quotes
173 quotes by 153 authors
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
— Russell Baker
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at…
— Kate Bornstein
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
— Pearl S. Buck
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In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW.
— Drake
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself…
— Susan Sontag
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The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
— E. W. Howe
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Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by…
— Claude Bernard
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...…
— Joseph LeConte
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Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t…
— Rajneesh
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.…
— John Szarkowski
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting…
— Robert Burns
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories…
— Osama bin Laden
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