Insisting Quote by Helen Simonson

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

— Doris Lessing

“It's not about insisting one's right; it's about maintaining everyone's peace.”

— Joey Lawsin

Trying to explain yourself to someone who keeps insisting they are right...just gotta drop the convo. Stop wasting time.

— Anonymous

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

— S. D Gordon

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

— Sheryl Sandberg

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better…

— Corey Taylor

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or…

— Benjamin Graham

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find…

— Edith Schaeffer

To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles…

— Stella Chess

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that…

— Meg Rosoff

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting…

— Ridley Scott