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Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.
— Robert Hunter
... nonbelievers will insist on their convictions regardless
how many miracles are presented to them — Caner Taslaman
how many miracles are presented to them — Caner Taslaman
If you insist on fighting every fight that comes your way, you're simply letting them push you around in a different way.
— Ken Liu
Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness?
— Cornelia Funke
If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.
— Alyson Noel
Besides, if Bones ever manifested the ability to control fire, Vlad would insist on a flame-off between them. He was competitive like that.
— Jeaniene Frost
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
— Michael Longley
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.
— William Shatner
Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.
— Sun Tzu
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
— Robert Bly
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
— Harold Bloom
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
— Tim Murphy
Let the inquiring Christian trample under foot every slippery trick of his deceitful heart and insist upon frank and open relations with the Lord.
— A.W. Tozer
Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn't be healthy.
— Patrick W. Carr
Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.
— William James
If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.
— Greg Foster
Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.
— Dada Bhagwan
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
— Peter Akinola
How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?
— Charlie Courtland
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
— Max Beerbohm
If you insist on standing in such a state of undress, it is your shadow that will have to get out of my way.
— Meg Hennessy
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
— Kent McCord
Insist upon yourself.
Be original. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be original. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My laird, two riders are at the front gates and insist to speak with only ye. They also have a woman traveling with them.
— Victoria Roberts
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
— Jack Kerouac
You can insist on a different end to the story.
— Monica Lewinsky
At seven, I didn't insist on my version of the world.
— Eileen Favorite
I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.
— Justin Smith
In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
— Helmut Lang
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
— Samuel Butler
She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, Madam, do you think that would be a lady?
— Erik Larson
I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence.
— John Paul Warren
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
— Cliff Burton
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
— Andrew Johnson
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
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
— Albert Ellis
I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
— Erwin Schrodinger
They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans.
— Jon Stewart
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
— Christy Turlington
You insist you're a monster because you're afraid of being human.
— Jessica Khoury
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
— Ezra Pound
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
— Jack Nicholson
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
— Aaron Sorkin
Individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities,
— Theodore Roosevelt
Those ... who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.
— David Simon
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
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
— Mario Cuomo
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
— Catherynne M Valente
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
— Anthony De Mello
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
— B.F. Skinner
He was right to insist. If they put her on a train,
— Laura Moriarty
Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
— Bill Kristol
Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.
— George Vecsey
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
— Ashok Kallarakkal
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
— Bear Bryant
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.
— Peter Watts
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
— Michael Scott
The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.
— Rod Stryker
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
— Pat Buckley
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
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
— Wendell Berry
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
— Andrea Bocelli
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
— Bertrand Russell
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
— Lawrence Fagg
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
— Alan Watts
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
— Joan D. Chittister
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
— Gautama Buddha
You cannot fill your life with happiness when you insist on living a stressful life.
— Debasish Mridha
Feeling like a caveman tonight? Or do you still insist you're immune to such primitive impulses?
— Claire Kent
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.
— Israelmore Ayivor
only a foolish asceticism, usually vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities now that the need no longer exists.
— Bertrand Russell
Mr. Asher, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, ma'am, I'm going to have to insist that you pass away, this instant. You're overdue.
— Christopher Moore
You come from a race that spends more time murdering your own kind than do all the immortals put together, yet you insist you are better than us.
— Tamora Pierce
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
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
— Andre Breton
Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.
— Pete Edochie
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
— Anthony Lewis
She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy.
— Rush Limbaugh
I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Insist on your cup of stars.
— Shirley Jackson