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Quotes About Insistence

And he was like, "No, no, I really think we ought to do that." And I was like, "We don't have time!" So he wrote it that night.
~ Peter Seibel
dünyan?n iki buçuk milyar nüfusundan yaln?z bir tek insan üzerinde ?srar?n bir monomaniden ba?ka ad? var m?d?r?
~ Peyami Safa
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
~ Josef Albers
screaming at characters to go ahead already
~ Adam Haslett
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
~ Todd Gitlin
As the days progressed, I felt as if YNK' was my first film. That is because the director was hellbent on perfectionism. He was insistent about getting the best out of me.
~ Richa Pallod
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
~ Andrea Bocelli
In his room, Elvis gave two large red pills, explaining, "Take this now, and by the time you come to bed, you'll be nice and relaxed." I really didn't need anything but he insisted, saying that they would help me sleep better...
~ Priscilla Presley
Insanity is the insistence on meaning.
~ Rabih Alameddine
If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.
~ Charlie Munger
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
~ Josef Albers
You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.
~ Ralph Ellison
Você pergunta o porquê de muitas coisas e, se insistir, acaba se tornando realmente muito infeliz.
~ Ray Bradbury
The common misery of destitution would have made a bitter mockery of a marked insistence on social differences. Gaspar
~ Joseph Conrad
The delegates from the southern states insisted that slaves were property, like horses and sheep, and therefore should not be counted as "Inhabitants." Franklin countered this claim with an edgy joke, observing that slaves, the last time he looked, did not behave like sheep: "Sheep will never make any insurrections.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
In the prophetic tradition the continual insistence is that trusting relationships and not tradable commodities are the proper category for communion with God.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
~ Doris Lessing
That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
They obstinately persisted in their absence
~ Douglas Adams
We demand admission!
~ Douglas Adams
It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.
~ Agatha Christie
The first query had been merely technical; a check to see that the communication beam was still online. Later, the weapon had become more urgent; adopting tones of polite insistence. Now it was getting far less diplomatic, throwing the machine equivalent of a tantrum.
~ Alastair Reynolds
First get to work; you can enjoy yourself afterwards! Such is the recurring, rhyming themesong that is passed down into the head, programming militarily the rhythm of the body's movements. Such is, in its numbing insistance, the tune that orchestrates the retreat of nascent intelligence. And rest assured – it will be a different intelligence that ends up in charge over the frozen behavior of working hours, an intelligence in which heart counts the least and is petrified the most.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
His relevance derives overwhelmingly from the questions he asked and from his insistence that they cannot be easily dispensed with in the ways that people often think. One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions.
~ Rebecca Goldstein