Insist Quotes

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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

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.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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.

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

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.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

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.

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.

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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

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

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

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