Quotes of: Insistent Keyword

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Diane Watson

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Benjamin Tucker

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Sidney Poitier

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

Eugene Ormandy

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Henry Louis Gates

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

B. F. Skinner

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Michael Lewis

Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

Trent Reznor

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

Tatyana Tolstaya

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Ireland Baldwin

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

Naomi Wolf

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

....now and then the universe just insists on changing your life in ways that you didn't ask it to.

Life Drawing

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Nan Hayworth

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

Pat Buckley

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Ann Oakley