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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.
Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.
I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.
Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.
All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
To both of them I insist: STOP INCITING HATE BEFORE YOU GET PEOPLE KILLED!!!!!
I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
Some people cannot understand why I insist on knowing about my role in a film before signing it.
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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.
We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.
But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.
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.
You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.
All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
