Insist Quotes

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius

Life, Simple, Making

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Love, Peace, Money

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Today

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Friendship, Marriage

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

Religion, Truth, True

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

Love, Country, America

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
Bill Maher

Politics, Time, Freedom

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Mitt Romney

Powerful, Military

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
Mitt Romney

Time, Good, Character

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Help, General

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett

Mind, Trying, Put

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

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

Good, Liar, Everything

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster

Children, Why, Themselves

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia Woolf

Sex, Country, Cannot

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Norman Borlaug

History, Seems, Ignoring

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Christopher Hitchens

Education, Religion, Children

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian

Show, Office, Dignity

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono

History, Ignorance, Words

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.
Albrecht Durer

Nature, Art, Greatest

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

Education, Men, Real

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm

Dreams, Among, Breakfast

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.
Simon Mainwaring

Greed, Become, Else

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.
Simon Mainwaring

Time, Wrong, Again

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Business, Virtues, Cardinal

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

May, Once, Face

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman

Sure, Along, Content

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Orlando Bloom

Same, Keep, Film

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Failure, Long

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz

Great, Freedom, Government

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