Top 204 Insisting Quotes & Sayings

I was almost surprised to realize that I had actually done something right as a parent by insisting on regular family dinners.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

I'm not one to restrict the potential that 'Dark Souls' has by insisting that only I can work on the titles.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

Tanzanians are some of the friendliest you'll ever meet, insisting on a welcoming smile and wave as they pass you on the streets, exclaiming 'Jambo!'

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

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

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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.

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I am grateful to my mother for insisting that I complete my education.

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can refine what we're doing musically. Also how we can create our own music, and what opportunities that can bring us, as creative musicians. And then insisting that musicians put themselves through an intellectually rigorous process, which involves a lot of reading and writing, while insisting that music scholars think about ethics.

I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

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

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

Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.