Quotes About Insisted
It's all right,' he insisted, 'I'm perfectly well. Thought I heard, well, a noise that startled me. But it was nothing. Just overcome with the tea fumes, I expect
~ Douglas Adams
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Yet the study of the Koran revealed that Muhammad himself had had a universal vision and had insisted that all rightly guided religions came from God.
~ Karen Armstrong
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The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
~ Martin Van Buren
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Although Mrs Albright stopped calling for further air strikes she still lamely insisted that the UN Sec General should consider cost of backing down in the face of Bosnian Serbs.
~ Jan Willem Honig
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Limburg remained what society had been from the first: an amateur speculation. Life, the provincials insisted, might yet be anything we told it to be.
~ Richard Powers
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It's my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! "Happy birthday!" I yelled. "Now shut up!
~ Rick Riordan
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Anything your father said. People he might have mentioned." "Amos," I blurted out, just to see his reaction. "He met a man named Amos." Inspector Williams sighed. "Sadie, he couldn't have done. Surely you know that. We spoke with Amos not one hour ago, on the phone from his home in New York." "He isn't in New York!" I insisted. "He's right—" I glanced out the window and Amos was gone. Bloody typical.
~ Rick Riordan
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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
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Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.
~ Juan Williams
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I smiled at David, even as I shoved at him to give me more room. I hadn't been pleased last night when he'd insisted I wasn't to be left alone, but you don't argue with two hundered pounds of wolf--you make room.
~ Kim Harrison
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Even at the depths of the Depression, editors and business leaders insisted that jobs were available if men would only hunt for them.
~ Desmond Morton
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Saraswati. 'But today Hansa insisted on coming along with me. I like Hansa. She is no ordinary bird. Give her
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
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Taft insisted that his guests bypass the main door and enter through a side door of the east entrance.
~ Ron Chernow
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Past subjunctive forms are used when reporting: May/might as well can be translated using the verb poder. When the speaker expresses advice in a mild way (that is, the advice is not emphasized or insisted on), por las mismas can be added (usually preceding the verb poder):
~ Rogelio Vallecillos
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But the dismal finances of geriatrics are only a symptom of a deeper reality: people have not insisted on a change in priorities.
~ Atul Gawande
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My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
~ Lady Colin Campbell
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he insisted that I move toward the center of people's lives
~ Barack Obama
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With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
~ John Bright
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I acted in 'Kaante' because Sanjay Gupta insisted me to do it. At that time, I had never thought that I would be acting in films.
~ Mahesh Manjrekar
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Mother," said Ramona urgently. This time she stepped into the hall. "Unless we get a ladder (Go back to your room, Ramona) and break the window so we can unlock it," Mother continued, speaking with one sentence inside another, the way grown-ups so often did with Ramona around. "But Mother," insisted Ramona even more urgently. "I have to—" "Oh, dear, I might have known," sighed Mother.
~ Beverly Cleary
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Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
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I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
~ Joseph Stefano
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I'm programming us a couple of spinach smoothies I'll pass. For the rest of my natural life. Just what you need, he insisted, tapped buttons manually. And came out with two cups of coffee.
~ J.D. Robb
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As Sean seem determined to shadow her every move, she concluded that young boys were much like cats. They insisted on giving their company to those who most feared or distrusted them.
~ J.D. Robb
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