Quotes of: Insistent Keyword

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

Rene Auberjonois

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Harold Brodkey

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

Ben Kingsley

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

Cliff Burton

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

Greg Foster

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Gordon Gee

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

James Q. Wilson

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Chuck Klosterman

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Edward M. Lerner

Wanda: Let's make love. Archie: Well, if you absolutely insist...

A Fish Called Wanda

Molly Brown: Why do they insist on announcing dinner like a damned cavalry charge?

Titanic

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Wayne Dyer

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Helmut Lang

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Echopraxia

How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?

The Hidden Will of the Dragon

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

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1