Best Insisting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Certainly, it is good for the personal self to have clear goals and a designated path to those goals. However, we work against fulfilling ourselves and our goals by having tunnel vision and insisting on the way we, at least, at the moment, want. Numerous ways are possible, many of which we will be unaware of until they materialize.”

Peace Struggle Acceptance Goals Setting Goals Fulfilment Insisting Tunnel Vision Letting Be

Book:Love's Longing

Source: Love's Longing

“It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind Ideas Seems Certain Christianity Achievement Eternal Should Have Contrary Realistic Worldly Trash Unreal Insisting Idealistic

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.”

“The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.”

Wells Book Process Products Lovers Speech Excellence Superiors Unusual Aesthetic Vehicle Utility Printed Obsolete Antiques Insisting Book Lover

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.”

People Children Country Jobs Next Asks Nations Watches Generations Ought Paid Our Children Workers Your Children Pet Lowest Next Generation Outrage Better Jobs Insisting

Author:Christopher Dodd

“Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.”

People Way Use Artist Culture Language Materials Ads Insisting Logos Artists And Writers Culture And Language

Author:Naomi Klein

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

Staff Something Better Perfectionist Insisting

Author:Walt Disney

“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”

Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

“Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?”

Men Should Humans May Mean Understanding Opinion Modern Prove Evidence Invisible Bother Immortality Memories Dreams Reflections Modern Man Insisting Scientific Evidence

Book:Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“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.”

Would Be Elders Insisting Footnotes Eruption

Author:Will Cuppy

“In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.”

Political Purpose Order Feminism Gay Activism Division Insisting Gay And Straight

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.”

Want Sides Cutting Taxes Members Increase Climate Climate Change Congress Myth Spots Experts Global Warming Economist Revenue Skeptic Tax Cuts Declaring Insisting

Author:Paul Krugman

“Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.”

“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

World Way Wells Stills Whole Would Be Attitude Behavior Islam Tolerance Whole World Tendencies Afghanistan Profitable Extremist Taliban Insisting

Author:Ahmad Shah Massoud

“You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing 'In atheism we trust' on all US currency and saying, 'One nation, under atheism" in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation... Wait...”

“The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.”

Children States Whole Levels Opinion Plans Ought Productions Educated Realms Uniforms Spontaneous Justified Uniformity Insisting

Book:Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

“It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy.”

Doe Said Running Law Energy Chance Simple Environment Atheism Normal Flow Criticism Complexes Positive Atheism Statistics Progression Insisting Thermodynamics

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“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.”

Ifs Writing May Book Literature Player Majors Insisting

Author:David Guterson

“Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.”

Today Lord Share Atheism Fundamentals Brave Atheist Positive Atheism Invites Fundamentalism Residents Insisting Missouri Totems

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“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.”

Mind Art Waiting Survival Senses Delicate Precision Insisting

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“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.”

People Knows Men May Certain Comfort Daily Life Conventions Considering Convenient Politeness Insisting

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.”

Motivation Moral United States Policy Conscience Motive Examining Insisting

Book:Economic philosophy

Source: Economic philosophy

“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.”

Way Stories Feelings Term Highest Hunts Insisting

Author:George Saunders

“no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.”

Ifs World Kind Made Perfect Views Our Lives Pleasant Impediments Insisting

Book:Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

“I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.”

People Knows Should Moments Interesting Quality Comedy Car Lucky Cinema Insisting

Author:Daniel Bruhl

“We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.”

Needs Years Enough Government Grows Economy Too Much Politician Spending Deficit American Politics Insisting Government Spending

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“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.”

World Persons Grows Differences Atmosphere Insisting

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions.”

Mind Reality Fiction Connections Fundamentals Symbolic Insisting Positivism Gaston

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“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.”

People Form Intellectual Regard Intellect Sexuality Damage Insisting Damage Control

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are the bad voices. The only guide you can afford to listen to is the obsessive, lovestruck thing inside you that keeps insisting it finds some particular subject utterly fascinating. Do not shame this part of yourself. Take it by the hand and lead it to safety.”

Should Hands Voice Subjects Particular Shame Safety Guides Fascinating Fashionable Obsessive Insisting

Author:Doris Egan

“Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.”

Source: Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition

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

Tough Tough Times Insisting

Author:Max Lucado

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

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

Real Sometimes Empathy Okay Insisting

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.”

“No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.”

Matter Seems Risk Exciting Safety Errors Investment Investing Careful Investors Odds Margins Insisting Being Wrong Overpaying

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

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

Moving Tasks Moving Forward Slides Insisting

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

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

Should Humans Rights West Human Rights Vocal Insisting

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.”

Thinking Want Government Values Including Atheist Consistent Appropriate Insisting

Author:Barack Obama

“An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.”

Way Artist Enjoy Simple Deals Pure Humble Accepted Editors Contracts Publishers Galaxy Be Humble Castes Insisting Caste System

Author:Jack Kirby

“I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.”

World Years Firsts Mean Has Beens Made Purpose Jesus Term Worry Violence Military News Propaganda Followers Good News Subversive Insisting No Worries Sacrificial Love

Author:Rob Bell

“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.”

Science Religion Feet Mountain Survival Evidence Standing Immense Volume Sheer After Death Everest Insisting Mount Everest

Author:Colin Wilson

“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.”

Might Law Revolution Resources Driven Parliament Laws Of Nature American Revolution Insisting Retaining

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.”

Real Enough Running Past Games Lost Poor Economy Planets Capitalism Infinite Now And Then Irrelevant Lure Insisting Hares Greyhounds

Book:A Short History Of Progress

Source: A Short History Of Progress

“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.”

Sometimes Matter Beautiful Certain Games Lost Victory Defeat Satisfying Insisting

Author:Arthur Ashe

“Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.”

Has Beens Abstinence Insisting

Author:Bill Nye

“Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.”

People Clear Building Mess Wet Observers Librarian Insisting Puddles Fetch

Author:Mark Steel

“Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.”

Way Giving Best Way Cooperation Insisting

Author:John Wooden

“So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.”

Littles Play Bits Parent Kindness Generations Humility Little Bit Evidence Exciting Spite Liberating Insisting

Author:Brendan Gleeson

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

Believe Father Insisting

Author:Oprah Winfrey

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