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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. — Andre Gide

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television ... — Jeremy Bernstein

Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes. — Swami Vivekananda

Perhaps Mr. Grey insists on all his employees being blonde. I'm wondering idly if that's legal. — E.L. James

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is. — Amy Dickinson

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise. — Knute Rockne

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. — Peter Greenaway

It is the supreme proof of a man being prosaic that he always insists on poetry being poetical. — G.K. Chesterton

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. — Oscar Wilde

Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom. — Anonymous

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way. — Friedrich Holderlin

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual. — Sun Tzu

He insists that I need nothing more than to let myself be carried away- and that even my greatest fears are unfounded. — Paulo Coelho

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn't worth the name. — Mahatma Gandhi

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood. — Criss Jami

Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. — Stephen King

Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift. — William Trevor

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. — Robert Kennedy

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better. — E.W. Howe

Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured. — Donald Kingsbury

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. — Benjamin Disraeli

And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different. — Dana Gioia

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. — Lemony Snicket

A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way. — Neel Burton

It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky

I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. — Brene Brown

resurrection insists that the darkness is actually surrounded by light - and the light is growing. — Jeff Cook

I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze. — Victoria Aveyard

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder? — Rex Stout

Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole. — Marcus Aurelius

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. — Henry Louis Gates

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. — Charles De Montesquieu

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into. — Hisham Fawzi

We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this. — Ani DiFranco

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war. — Robert M. La Follette

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent. — Franz Kafka

There are no heroes in our world. No clear-cut evil either. Everyone involved insists that they're the righteous ones. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him. — A.W. Tozer

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled. — Theodor Adorno

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives. — Mahatma Gandhi

The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course). — Tom Robbins

Question the trustworthiness of someone who insists to be trusted without earning it... — Assegid Habtewold

Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone. — Oswald Chambers

The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought. — Andre Vltchek

New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied. — Thomas French

My mom insists that my friendships online aren't real. She says that until you meet someone in person, you don't really know them. I don't agree, — Daniel H. Wilson

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking. — Catherine Marshall

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men. — George Sand

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow — John C. Maxwell

So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked.

"My tailor insists. — Sharon Cameron

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. — Christopher Lasch

The medicalized version of mortality, though, insists that you get into a wheelchair when you are in a hospital. — Anonymous

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally. — Wendy Shalit

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft. — Marian Keyes

Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades). — Seanan McGuire

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there. — W. H. Auden

My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child. — Kurt Vonnegut

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. — Montesquieu

I'm coming with you," Kartik insists. "You'll get yourself killed," I argue. "Then it's a good day to die," he says, — Libba Bray

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? — Taslima Nasrin

In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW. — Drake

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did. — Alain De Botton

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent. — Catherynne M Valente

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. — Werner Heisenberg

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. — Terry Eagleton

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept. — Nan Hayworth

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand. — Ashleigh Brilliant

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage. — Christoph Schonborn

He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has. — Yukio Mishima

Love, which insists that love shall mutual be. — Dante Alighieri

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it. — Helen Frankenthaler

Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane. — Nathanael West

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. — Fred Barnes

Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ... — Douglas Coupland

Now and then the universe just insists on changing your life in ways that you didn't ask it to. — Robin Black

The Countess G - - insists upon it that he is a vampire. — Alexandre Dumas

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. — Bill Vaughan

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. — Robert Breault

If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In my experience, you can never go wrong with flowers and food, even when someone insists that there's nothing at all you can do. — Shauna Niequist