Insisting Quotes

Insisting Quote of the day

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

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

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

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

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

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

Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

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

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.