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"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God." »Heywood Broun
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"insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?" »Abba Eban
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"insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"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
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"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information." »Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table." »Max Beerbohm
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"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals." »Brigid Brophy
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"I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist" »Peter Handke
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"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 Baldwin
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"Thats why i insist that love itself is a mystery,which when allowed to haunt a man's mind,the power of reasoning itself may fail." »Lot Chakonza
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"What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion." »Daisy Bates
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"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding." »Ezra Loomis Pound
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"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 Theresa
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"insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." »Barry Goldwater
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"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." »Euripides
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"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery." »Charles Krauthammer
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"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner
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"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner
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"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." »Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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