Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
I'm an unelected adviser. I can't insist on my way.
I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?
Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.
When my mother was around, she would insist on celebrating my birthdays.
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Some people cannot understand why I insist on knowing about my role in a film before signing it.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.
