Insistently Quotes

#1. I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature's killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that's not the word.

Ander Monson

#2. He snapped his scowl at Sali Dalib. "As you delay! You will take us to the guildhouse of Pasha Pook," he reiterated, more insistently, "and then you are dismissed." "Pook? Oh, Pook," the merchant beamed.

R.A. Salvatore

#3. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

Elie Wiesel

#4. Birds have done great jobs for the progression of humanity: They kept alive our love for freedom and they insistently motivated us to reach the skies, to reach the stars!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church's pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.

Pope Francis

#6. It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do ... is stop moving away.

Joanne Harris

#7. It is not creativity, however pastoral it may be, or meetings or planning that ensures our fruitfulness, even if these are greatly helpful. But what ensures our fruitfulness is our being faithful to Jesus, who says insistently: "Abide in me and I in you" (John 15:4).

Pope Francis

#8. Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. However insistently the blind may deny the existence of the sun, they cannot annihilate it.

D.T. Suzuki

#11. Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. People should love in the same way that they should write; insistently, fervently, forever.

R. YS Perez

#13. The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#14. To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.

Umberto Eco

#15. The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.

Veronique Vienne

#16. Speak the truth.
Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,
and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power.
Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence.
All growth is not good.
The environment is a necessity, not a luxury.
There is such a thing as enough.

Donella Meadows

#17. What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Neal A. Maxwell

#18. Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone.

Yann Martel

#19. Gregory of Nazianzus was amused by any who would insistently hold "God to be a male" which he regarded as a misplaced analogy.

Thomas C. Oden

#20. He moved to her other breast, then lower, lower...
She rolled her hips insistently when he settled between her open legs, crouched like a predator about to devour his prey.

Katie Reus

#21. The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

John Green

#22. Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

James Branch Cabell

#23. I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

Garth Greenwell

#24. Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#25. The sun was a toddle insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light.

John Green

#26. It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.

Tony Horwitz

#27. When it seems that there is no way, the way is to think insistently that there is a way!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

Catherine The Great

#29. Ibrahim feels an overwhelming desire for her, for the soft of her body, the warmth of it. This urge silences the other voice in his mind, the one that asks insistently, and seeks, and seeks.

Parnaz Foroutan

#30. Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Gordon Gee

#31. The digital clock that sat on the empty bookcase blinked insistently in the dim room. It was an hour and thirty-five minutes off, but Archie had never bothered to reset it, he just did the maths to calculate the time.

Chelsea Cain

#32. If you were crazy you wouldn't realize how crazy it sounds," she said gently but insistently. "You're recognizing a problem and you're getting help for it, the same way any sane person with a medical problem would.

Jenny Lawson