Top 354 Insisted Quotes & Sayings

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

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

It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.

It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

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

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear _______Peter Johnson__________.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

My mother insisted that her children read.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

Ever wonder how many angels you have? All of them. They insisted.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that he was wrong.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

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

Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!

In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.'

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

My father set a strict regimen for me. He insisted that I learn to play many musical instruments before I choose one.

I acted in 'Kaante' because Sanjay Gupta insisted me to do it. At that time, I had never thought that I would be acting in films.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

I loved movies and watched a lot of them. But my father insisted that I get a good education before I joined the film industry.

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

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?