Insists Quotes

173 Insists quotes by 147 unique authors

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after… — James A. Baldwin
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.… — Chuck Klosterman
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family… — Bell Hooks
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting… — Barack Obama
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and… — Richard Wright
Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare… — Lisa Kleypas
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps… — Obert Skye
Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the… — Ellen Hopkins
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink… — Catherynne M. Valente
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts… — C.S. Lewis
A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to… — Richard Siken
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the… — Alain de Botton
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits… — Barack Obama
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security… — Erich Fromm
Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better." "Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean… — Simone Elkeles
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the… — Sonia Sotomayor
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in… — Barack Obama
Love, which insists that love shall mutual be. — Dante Alighieri
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that… — Hannah Arendt
I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply.… — Jeremy Grantham
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. — Charles de Montesquieu
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept. — Nan Hayworth

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