Insists Quotes

173 Insists quotes by 147 unique authors

It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more… — Sarah Miles
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if… — C.S. Lewis
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. — Andre Gide
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an… — Susan Sontag
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and… — Jonathan Raban
Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their… — Frederick Lenz
I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for… — Curtis Armstrong
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. — Peter Greenaway
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on… — Etgar Keret
We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law… — Louis Kronenberger
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always… — John O'Donohue
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not… — Chin-Ning Chu
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the… — Matthew Arnold
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is. — Amy Dickinson
God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ...… — Henry Ward Beecher
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share… — Louis Simpson
A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the… — Bill Barich
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood. — Criss Jami
Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole. — Marcus Aurelius
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or… — Bill Vaughan
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. — Henry Louis Gates
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. — Terry Eagleton

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