Insist Quotes

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.