Quotes of: Insistent Keyword

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Andrea Bocelli

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Paul Rand

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

Neal A. Maxwell

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

Peter Greenaway

Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence.

John Paul Warren

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

Rupert Murdoch

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Greg Boyle

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

Christy Turlington

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Indiana: Stay here. Satipo: [shrugs] If you insist, señor.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

Kristin Kreuk

They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a moment; they do not expect to see the bias and prejudices of years disappear at the blast of a trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the...

The Souls of Black Folk

Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and social...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Diggers

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.

The Fault in Our Stars

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Jacob Epstein

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Pat Buchanan

Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

Kathy Shaidle

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Lao Tzu