We Insist Quotes

53 quotes by 42 authors

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do. — Cliff Burton
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry,… — K.P. Yohannan
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended. — Sterling W Sill
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. — Bill Gates
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron
Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as… — Julia Serano
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and… — Paulo Coelho
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we canâ€™t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense… — John Dufresne
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must… — Rabindranath Tagore
We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly… — Iyanla Vanzant
We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with… — Jerry Bridges
Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today… — Oswald Chambers
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the… — Danielle Crittenden
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein

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