Quotes About Insists

#1. Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.

E. J. Dionne

#2. It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue
the penalty of living in an old civilisation with a notebook.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Peter Greenaway

#4. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

David Sedaris

#5. Perhaps Mr. Grey insists on all his employees being blonde. I'm wondering idly if that's legal.

E.L. James

#6. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.

Scott Adams

#7. The medicalized version of mortality, though, insists that you get into a wheelchair when you are in a hospital.

Anonymous

#8. Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.

Brendan Kennelly

#9. He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Stephen King

#10. You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

Ani DiFranco

#11. Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Friedrich Holderlin

#12. Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

Nathanael West

#13. Question the trustworthiness of someone who insists to be trusted without earning it...

Assegid Habtewold

#14. Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Theodor Adorno

#15. Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual

Rosalind Miles

#16. Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Taslima Nasrin

#17. Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#18. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.

Ann Hood

#19. Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome ... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.

Peter C Bunnell

#20. Sal is the best partner in the world but, sadly, we don't actually work well together. She insists on knowing what we are doing in advance of doing it. I prefer to discover what we end up with. Fundamentally

J. David Cox

#21. Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight
that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers."
It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

Jerry Spinelli

#22. If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

Knute Rockne

#23. And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

D.H. Lawrence

#24. In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.

Lloyd Alexander

#25. If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.

Michael Josephson

#26. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.

Anthony Doerr

#27. Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Barbara G. Walker

#28. Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

#29. Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

Emile Chartier

#30. Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real ... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

Jerry Bridges

#31. For three centuries the life of the Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries. Pul

H.G.Wells

#32. His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Harvey Mansfield

#33. A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Criss Jami

#34. We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Eric Idle

#35. I'm coming with you," Kartik insists. "You'll get yourself killed," I argue. "Then it's a good day to die," he says,

Libba Bray

#36. When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

Amy Dickinson

#37. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

G. Gordon Liddy

#38. Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television ...

Jeremy Bernstein

#39. Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Nan Hayworth

#40. I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.

Wilbur Smith

#41. So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked.

"My tailor insists.

Sharon Cameron

#42. Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

Marian Keyes

#43. We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#44. In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW.

Drake

#45. Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

Oswald Chambers

#46. God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Catherine Marshall

#47. For the first time I can see this other longing
the desire to stay. For the first time I realize that maybe she insists on us staying apart because she doesn't want to lose this all over again.

Amie Kaufman

#48. A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

Albert Einstein

#49. Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Terry Eagleton

#50. One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Andre Gide

#51. I keep my back turned while he maneuvers his shorts into place. "Are you decent?" I call after a few seconds. No matter how many times I tell him I can't see into the water yet, he insists I'm just trying to look at his "eel." For crying out loud.

Anna Banks

#52. Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'
They will remain protected,' Asha insists.
No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Libba Bray

#53. So it's clear that nothing good can come from our good works. God insists in Scripture that believing Him is what He credits to our account as righteousness. And He gets to make the rules.

Beth Moore

#54. But she insists the family hadn't a choice. Not true. We always have choices. Isn't that what Dante teaches us?
I really have become quite the Dante scholar: There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.

Chris Bohjalian

#55. It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

Noam Chomsky

#56. You are so stubborn."
"I am? I? Woman who insists everything be her way? You must wear hard white shoes. You must remove your weapons. You must travel in a car. You must not kiss me even though I wrap my legs around you when you do. Must must must. I weary of that word.

Karen Marie Moning

#57. I offer to shake hands with Kyle, but he insists on a high five, something I've never done. I've seen the Dallas Cowboys do it, and it looks like great fun.

Craig Lancaster

#58. resurrection insists that the darkness is actually surrounded by light - and the light is growing.

Jeff Cook

#59. My mom insists that my friendships online aren't real. She says that until you meet someone in person, you don't really know them. I don't agree,

Daniel H. Wilson

#60. Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

#61. Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought to be content having exacerbated everyone around him, but he insists tormenting future generations.

Montesquieu

#62. A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

Robert Breault

#63. The speculator who insists on trying to profit from daily minor movements will never be in a position to take advantage of the next important change marketwise when it occurs.

Anonymous

#64. If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

Uthman Ibn Affan

#65. If God refuses to mass-produce but insists on an intimate process that in the end forms each of us into the image of Christ, why would we choose a lesser path for our own lives? The work of the artist begins with the care of his or her own soul.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#66. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Arthur Bloch

#67. The sad thing is that sometimes I just wanna roll over and give her a little cuddle, but the bolster pillow she insists on sleeping with down the middle of the bed between us means I'd need to be a mountaineer as well as a locksmith.

Poppet

#68. Fear is the reason I can't let this go, either. It's the reason Rachel needs to believe that whatever happened is Stacey's fault. It's why she insists that we're all very different from Stacey. Because the truth is that if it could happen to Stacey, it could happen to any of us. By

Aaron Hartzler

#69. Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

Laura Mullen

#70. But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

Robert E. Barron

#71. Aristotle insists that habituation, not teaching, is the route to moral virtue (II. 1). We must practise doing good actions, not just read about virtue.

Aristotle.

#72. Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Henry James

#73. So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn't mind
no that's not right
he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

Lynn Morris

#74. Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

Swami Vivekananda

#75. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Brian Eno

#76. Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

Edward Jenks

#77. If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives - and they do - then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

Dean Koontz

#78. A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

Bill Barich

#79. If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. D'Artagnan, be it remembered, was only twenty years old, and at that age sleep has its imprescriptible rights which it imperiously insists upon, even with the saddest hearts.

Alexandre Dumas

#81. 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. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.

Jeremy Grantham

#82. The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy
he's a tippler
saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.

David Sedaris

#83. Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Frederick Lenz

#84. Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#85. I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

Mads Mikkelsen

#86. Part of John's meaning of the cross, then, is that it is not only what happens, purely pragmatically, when God's kingdom challenges Caesar's kingdom. It is also what has to happen if God's kingdom, which makes its way (as Jesus insists) by nonviolence rather than by violence, is to win the day.

N. T. Wright

#87. The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bill Vaughan

#88. He insists that I need nothing more than to let myself be carried away- and that even my greatest fears are unfounded.

Paulo Coelho

#89. Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.

Dante Alighieri

#90. The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

Werner Heisenberg

#91. God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

Robert Burns

#92. Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

Marcus Aurelius

#93. When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

Chin-Ning Chu

#94. The Countess G - - insists upon it that he is a vampire.

Alexandre Dumas

#95. Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#96. Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.

Thom Yorke

#97. History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of people are inviolably in the right, whereas the others are in the wrong and must somehow be punished.

Rod Liddle

#98. We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Louis Kronenberger

#99. New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.

Thomas French

#100. When the Catholic Church insists that it is more sinful to use condoms in the midst of a sexually transmitted epidemic that it is for the same Church to withhold approbation of the use of condoms, it is less suprising that the sexual abuse of minors was handled unethically.

Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea