Insists Quotes

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Happy, Woman, Human

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

Society, True, Law

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Others, Rather

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker

Company, Longer, Misery

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

Life, Regret, Before

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian Eno

Religion, Forget, Through

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Henry Louis Gates

Hard, Working, Poverty

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan

Last, Everybody, Won

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Attitude, Find, Rather

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

Future, Fool, Boring

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Terry Eagleton

Truth, Illusory

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Christopher Lasch

Cannot, Force, Economics

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
Cynthia Nixon

Time, Hard, Working

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
Fred Barnes

Free, Whether, President

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Sammy Hagar

Truth, Judge, Saying

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Baron de Montesquieu

Fool, Him, Bored

I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.
Wilbur Smith

Mind, Wife, Old

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
Joe Henderson

Anyone, Racing, Rule

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Albert Finney

Give, After, Old

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.
Curtis Armstrong

Love, Serious, Acting

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Nan Hayworth

Care, Cannot, Accept

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin

Sun, Around, Earth

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
Robert M. La Follette

Peace, War, Making

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