Top 100 Quotes About Insistence
#1. We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility ... You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.
Lyall Watson
#2. The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind ... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding
#3. I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.
Jed S. Rakoff
#4. No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#5. The common misery of destitution would have made a bitter mockery of a marked insistence on social differences. Gaspar
Joseph Conrad
#6. Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.
J.R.D. Tata
#7. The bay was bright blue today, the hard fierce blue of a gas flame. If there was fog rolling in - and there must be, given the insistence of those horns - she couldn't see it from here.
Armistead Maupin
#8. The insistence on the knowledge of intellectual mysteries, either as an indispensable addition to or as a substitute for simple obedience to the claims of the Christian life, has always been a weakness of the Church.
R.H. Charles
#9. There were no monsters, her parents assured her, but Luce's repeated insistence on the presence of something wobbly and dark had gotten her several appointments with the family eye doctor, and then glasses, and then appointments with the ear doctor after she made the mistake of describing
Lauren Kate
#10. Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.
Lynn Coady
#11. We must apologise to the readers for returning with such insistence to the Robinson Crusoe and Friday story, which properly belongs to the nursery and not to the field of science - but how can we help it?
Friedrich Engels
#12. Patient, peaceful insistence on balance, not April control battles, will result in your child learning to use technology responsibly.
Anonymous
#13. awareness training, and like AA's insistence on forcing alcoholics
Charles Duhigg
#14. The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
O. S. Hawkins
#15. leaving Will to stand by and watch, wearing that stupid grin he never seemed to shake anymore. I missed his ironic scowl. I missed his insistence that we were a bunch of pussies. God, he was the biggest fucking pussy now.
Christina Lauren
#16. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
#17. Then, abrupt and decisive, the Emerald City rose before them. A city of insistence, of blanket declaration. It made no sense, clotting up the horizon, sprouting like a mirage on the characterless plains of central Oz. Glinda hated it from the moment she saw it. Brash upstart of a city.
Gregory Maguire
#18. I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?
Robert Charles Wilson
#19. In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one's own opinion.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
Conrad Wolfram
#21. Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries.
John Ortberg
#22. Yes - this I hold to with devout insistence,
Wisdom's last verdict goes to say:
He only earns both freedom and existence
Who must reconquer them each day.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
Susie Orbach
#24. Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.
J.G. Ballard
#25. No need for miracles to do the impossible if we have beliefs,will and insistence
Mohammed Sekouty
#26. Advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.
Mary Frances Berry
#27. There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.
Dada Bhagwan
#28. If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
Richard Rosen
#29. There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!
Dada Bhagwan
#30. This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.
Ralph Barton Perry
#31. This is for your stubborn insistence on willfully endangering us both. Smack!
Evangeline Anderson
#32. I want everything to be explained to me or nothing. And the reason is impotent when it hears this cry from the heart. The mind aroused by this insistence seeks and finds nothing but contradictions and nonsense.
Albert Camus
#33. The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter ...
James Elkins
#34. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.
Helen Shucman
#36. Ironically, the Democrats' great insistence on the natural equality of all white men prompted them to make a more glaring exception of non-whites. Taking seriously the motto "all men are created equal," Democrats called into question the very humanity of nonwhites in order to keep them unequal.
Daniel Walker Howe
#37. Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato's insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.
Sylvia Boorstein
#38. In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#39. Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
Elihu Root
#40. Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.
Oswald Chambers
#41. Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.
Robert D. Richardson
#42. Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
Taisha Abelar
#43. The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.
Mike Rowe
#44. There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin
#45. We pray with sometimes unseemly insistence for specific things to happen. We give no thought to the myriad ways in which they might come to pass.
John Burgess
#46. Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#47. The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of
love and forgiveness into them.
Isabel Allende
#48. Despite the pressing insistence of the ordinary and the mundane, we must make the best time of the time we have before the tick tick ticking ends.
Laurence Overmire
#49. What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
Samantha Harvey
#50. The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history
Harrison Salisbury
#51. But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.
Dada Bhagwan
#53. Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative energy, the fundamental decency, the tolerance and insistence on truth, and the good-heartedness of the American people are there still plainly. Many
David McCullough
#54. Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#55. And underscoring it all was my father's insistence that my sister and I were the prettiest, smartest, and baddest bitches in Gotham town, no matter how many times we pissed ourselves or cut our own bangs with blunt kitchen scissors.
Lena Dunham
#56. To know worldly relations as being 'relation' (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove 'I am correct'. One has to bring about a closure by saying, 'you are correct'.
Dada Bhagwan
#57. In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.
Walter Brueggemann
#58. Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings.
Dominick LaCapra
#59. As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one].
Dada Bhagwan
#61. His insistence, George had made reservations for a flight the next day.
Carolyn Keene
#62. I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival ...
Rebecca Solnit
#63. He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Elie Wiesel
#64. A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant
Sheryl Sandberg
#65. I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother. I was glad for her, it meant more freedom for the rest of us.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#66. The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.
Roger Rosenblatt
#67. Women fall differently, that's all. We die by the stopping of our hearts, they by the insistence of theirs.
Chris Cleave
#68. Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#69. In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
#70. Asking patients to describe what triggers their habitual behavior is called awareness training, and like AA's insistence on forcing alcoholics to recognize their cues, it's the first step in habit reversal training. The tension that Mandy felt in her nails cued her nail biting habit.
Charles Duhigg
#71. Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there!
Dada Bhagwan
#72. How it irks me to have to take her hand, allow her to pull my dress over my head, undo my corsets and strip them off my, and have her see my blue veined swollen flesh and the hairy triangle that still proclaims with lunatic insistence a non-existent womanhood.
Margaret Laurence
#73. Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#75. The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism
his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Jon Krakauer
#76. Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.
Robert Farrar Capon
#77. Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
Maya Angelou
#78. No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think 'why don't others accept it even when I am right?' It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.
Dada Bhagwan
#79. Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#80. What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#81. I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.
Richard Dawkins
#82. I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
Daniel Woodrell
#83. The moment of writing is not an escape ... it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.
Larry Levis
#84. Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur Erickson
#86. Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
David Graeber
#87. The weaker the man in authority ... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
Austin O'Malley
#88. The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
Albert Camus
#89. America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
Paul Krugman
#90. He holds the most frightening and terrible of all of the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Thomas Merton
#92. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
Felix Frankfurter
#93. The affective modalities of semiosis, in Halliday's functional analysis, are most concerned with the imaginative and the personal functions. Consider for example the ways in which the dialogism I have described above accord with Halliday's insistence that the
Anonymous
#94. Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan," Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. "Learning is our soul's requirement, and
Stephen R. Lawhead
#95. The differences between Buber and Hegel far outnumber their similarities. But they are at one in their opposition to any otherworldliness, in their insistence on finding in the present whatever beauty and redemption there may be, and in their refusal to pin their hopes on any beyond.
Martin Buber
#96. The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.
Theodore Roosevelt
#97. Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.
Kenneth Clark
#98. The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.
Lucas Papademos
#99. This line of reasoning brings us to a challenging question: If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?
Frederic Bastiat
#100. Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
Octavio Paz
