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Quotes About Insistence

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.
~ Manmohan Singh
The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
The strength of anarchism is its moral insistence on the primacy of human freedom over political expediency. But human freedom exists in a political context. It is not sufficient, however, to simply take the most uncompromising position in defense of freedom. It is necessary to actually win freedom.
~ Christopher Day
If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Of course, if everybody insists on it, there's no help for it.… But believe me, my dear boy, the two most powerful warriors are patience and time:
~ Leo Tolstoy
"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!"
~ Lewis Carroll
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think you'd better leave." Lockhart stiffened. "I do not believe it is your place to request my departure." Shaking his head, William pushed back his chair. "I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you to go.
~ Tracie Peterson
Dada n'a aucune prétention comme la vie devrait être. Peut-être me comprendrez-vous mieux quand je vous dirai que dada est un microbe vierge qui s'introduit avec l'insistance de l'air dans tous les espaces que la raison n'a pu combler de mots ou de conventions.
~ Tristan Tzara
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.
~ David Brin
understanding slope strip shop he knows in Chinatown but Poor Tony turns white as a shit and said by no means and put up an arguement and everything like that and we just left the type there in his vehicle off Mem Dr we broke the jaw for insentive not to eat no cheese and C insisted and was not 2Bdenied and took off one ear which there was a mess and everything like that and then C throws the ear away after in a dumster so yrstrulys' like so what was the exact pernt to that like.
~ David Foster Wallace
I was absolutely determined to leave. They wouldn't let me. They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Your show is running late because Keith doesn't want to go on stage until he gets a shepherd's pie.
~ Unknown
I have all the while maintained that in so far as it should be insisted that there was an equality between the white and black races that should produce a perfect social and political equality, it was an impossibility.
~ Unknown
I'm going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won't be here to … to bother anyone." He muttered two quiet words. "What?" she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hear him. "I said, try it .
~ Lisa Kleypas
I don't," Cody insisted. Now he was not only standing up to both of us, he was practically breaking his own record for chattiness at the same time. And even though I didn't have a heart, except for circulatory purposes, I felt an affection for him and wanted to come down on his side.
~ Jeff Lindsay
At least you can be grateful," Brian said, "that I am not the type who insists on saying, told you so." "Didn't you just say it?" I asked him. "Nobody's perfect," he said, and put the car in gear. "What now?
~ Jeff Lindsay
Don't tell me no this time, Aura. Please. Don't make me stop.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
I dream it shatters, I expect and dissapoints, I get tired & Same dream insists I want to be your & my fatigue smiles as whole energy be in me .
~ Ankit Samrat
Bernie Sanders is making a big and potentially dangerous mistake with his continuing insistence on changes to the Democratic Party's rules and platform. I should know. As chairman of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, I understand too well where such ideological stubbornness can lead.
~ William M. Daley
Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.
~ Chip R. Bell
The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than good old-fashioned loathing.
~ David Sedaris
The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing. No credit is given for distinguishing between these two very different emotions. I fear snakes. I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I'm comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind.
~ David Sedaris