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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
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
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
Scarlet insisted she be given time to bathe, and though Wolf had looked borderline devastated, the time apart was worthwhile.
— Marissa Meyer
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
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
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[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.
— Lauren Willig
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
