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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on. — Vladimir Lenin

Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand. — Judy Budnitz

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin

Bezos dismissed those objections and insisted that to succeed in books as Apple had in music, Amazon needed to control the entire customer experience, — Brad Stone

I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love. — Katie Kacvinsky

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald

Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said.
"Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted.
"Arrakis is the destination of everyone," he said. — Frank Herbert

Votes, this essayist insisted, not signatures, were the correct way to express the public will - a — Marla R. Miller

My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age. — S.T. Joshi

I call you domina because that's what you are," Samuel insisted.
"It's what I was. Now I'm just Brie. What if I only called you pathfinder? — Kenya Wright

Italian drivers: "...he drove as if he were at the wheel of a Ferrari at Monza. Like all drivers, he insisted on showing off his skills. — Michele Guittari

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong

Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge. — Jon Krakauer

Scarlet insisted she be given time to bathe, and though Wolf had looked borderline devastated, the time apart was worthwhile. — Marissa Meyer

Ever wonder how many angels you have? All of them. They insisted. — Mike Dooley

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's not important," Silena insisted. "We have to find Charlie!"
Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery. — Rick Riordan

She had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or life from leaving her. — Peter Cameron

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day. — Jay McInerney

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau

And you are not coming back here," She insisted,"So dont give me any empty promises. — Rick Riordan

Really?" I asked. "Misty Steele?" Marcus shrugged. "It was Adrian's suggestion." "It's badass," insisted Adrian. — Richelle Mead

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, in-tune with nature. — Neal Stephenson

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. — Kristin Kreuk

[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary. — Lauren Willig

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom. — Mike Pence

O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! ... — Lemony Snicket

We have choice," she insisted. "This is it. We don't get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we're given ... — Dianna Hardy

Prophet was just happy to be out of any moving object, and insisted they walk there. They did so hand in hand. He — S.E. Jakes

You're toast."
I felt like toast, burning with anger inside my waterproof layers. "I am not," I insisted. "I might be lightly browned on one side. — Jennifer Echols

We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet. — Michael Palin

My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked. — Edith Konecky

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon. — William Faulkner

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels. — L.P. Hartley

He was smoking hot. As in H-O-T-T, hott. I'd never understood until that moment why girls insisted on adding an extra t. This guy was extra-t-worthy. — Wendy Higgins

I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize" instead of "use. — Patrick Rothfuss

Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this. — Aldous Huxley

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. — William Eggleston

No one ever calls me Tyrannus. My mother insisted on it because it's a family name, but my father hates it. — Rainbow Rowell

Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight! — Rick Riordan

Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up.
'One of ours?' Maddox insisted ...
'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed. — Gena Showalter

If I'd been any less of an asshole, I would have insisted she stay home, but it had already been established on numerous occasions that I wasn't. — Jamie McGuire

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music. — Tanya Huff

My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all! — Dada Bhagwan

Ah! there is a man who justifies the wit who insisted that one ought never to know an author except through his books. — Marcel Proust

I never wanted anything new; from the age of ten, I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things on having to be found. — Cecelia Ahern

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination. — Sathya Sai Baba

Curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father — Gail Carson Levine

Crime? No, he was not. He insisted he knew nothing — John Grisham

He thought what she did was horrible, so he insisted on taking the punishment himself, instead of sending another. — Brandon Sanderson

His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror. — Ursula K. Le Guin

How about I bring you a water and something else?" she insisted. "On me?"
What, like your vagina in a cup? Jesus. — R.S. Grey

No, really, what do you like about me? she insisted.

Why?

I figure if I know, I can keep doing it to keep you as long as I can. — Vivek Shraya

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever — Jodi Picoult

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am. — Rodman Philbrick

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga

Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire. — Tran Thien Khiem

Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes. — Ben Shapiro

Amalia insisted he wasn't cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated. — Dean Koontz

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality. — Dean Koontz

My mother insisted that her children read. — Jimmy Buffett

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? — David Nicholls

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts. — Gail Carriger

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts,
that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful. — Bertrand Russell

You are precious" I insisted. "Stubborn and secretive and independent to a fault, but precious. — Alyxandra Harvey

It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted. — Libba Bray

Like the pioneering Muslim scientists, Al Bukhari insisted on an empirical, organized method in the science of fiqh and hadith — Firas Alkhateeb

Anandmayi must have insisted. If there is one woman who can entice Parvateshwar into breaking his vow of celibacy, it is her. 'My — Amish Tripathi

She could have had a heart attack!" Jenny insisted. "Oh, please, Ruthie's an unstoppable force of nature, like the Black Plague or Richard Simmons. — Molly Harper

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing. — James MacArthur

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already — Richard Paul Evans

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King Jr.

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people — Patrice Motsepe

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

added because it was the polite thing to do. "I'm going home," Cricket insisted as if Anna had threatened to drag her bodily back into the — Nevada Barr

Life, she insisted, is how you live it and who you live it with, not what you do to make a living. — Kristen Callihan

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. — Walker Percy

It's not just anyone," Lily insisted. "It's Dead-Eye Dan! I know it is. — Karen Witemeyer

Insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is. — Fulton J. Sheen

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel. — Patti Smith

I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes. — Pat Conroy

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong:
Dear _Peter Johnson, — Rick Riordan

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. — Tim Berners-Lee

insisted, "until the point is inarguable. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. — Twyla Tharp

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. — Sidney Poitier

She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up. — Helen Hodgman

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place. — Mahatma Gandhi

The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, YEAH! Bring it on, Lake! — Rick Riordan

She felt certain she could make the trip in a quarter hour on Emery's paper glider, but he insisted that the world wasn't ready for such eccentricity. — Charlie N. Holmberg

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed. — David Mitchell

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. — Erwin Rommel

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new. — John Darnielle

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too. — Stephenie Meyer

You get some rest. We'll talk later."
"I'd rather not," I said nicely.
"Rest is important," he insisted. — Obert Skye

You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted. — George R R Martin