Quotes About Insistence

I always tell my students: a style is a means of insisting on something.

Insistence on conformity—cultural, religious, or otherwise—was self-defeating, causing strife and undermining trade and business.

I want a companion who'll go on walks with me, and sit on my lap while I pet him." "You'll have me for that." Cassandra pointed to the contract. "Dog," she insisted. "I'm afraid it's nonnegotiable.

He craved activity and noise, having even gone so far as to insist that the carpenters and plumbers resume their daily cacophony of work, despite the fact that Devon had told them to stop while Winterborne recovered. Apparently the last thing Winterborne wanted was peace and quiet.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us.

If Scotsmen were stubborn about anything—and, in fact, they tended to be stubborn about quite a number of things, truth be known—it was the virtues of oatmeal parritch for breakfast. Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings.

I was a kid and a little pedantic but I still maintain I had a point.

Though he had repeatedly asked her not to do this, she insisted on choosing a subject at the beginning of any investigation he worked on, and she was generally wrong, for she always opted for the most obvious choice.

That "these people" were ourselves, that this insistence on mistrust of others—that people who looked so very much like each other, who shared a common history of suffering and humiliation and enslavement, should be taught to mistrust each other, even as children, is no longer a mystery to me.

Mary alone insisted on wearing a white gown.

Instead, she insisted on being called Queen Mother for the rest of her life.

On this the young Mary asserted herself, adamantly refusing to be detached from the main body of the court for very long.

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

Charles the Bald, however, insisted that his daughter should receive the full royal honours.

How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification, But his desire to know the truth was stronger, and seemed to him nobler than his desire for her.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Atormentaste-me com a tua insistência, transtornaste-me com o teu ardor, encantaste-me com a tua delicadeza, confiei nas tuas juras, seduziu-me a minha inclinação violenta, e o que se seguiu a tão agradável e feliz começo não são mais que suspiros, lágrimas e uma tristíssima morte que julgo sem remédio. É certo que tive, ao amar-te, alegrias surpreendentes, mas custam-me agora os maiores tormentos: são extremas todas as emoções que me causas.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

As Jonathan V. Last wrote in The Bulwark on October 8, "Go write this down: after November 3, the price of GOP politics is going to be an insistence that, actually, Donald Trump did win the election and/or would have won if it hadn't been stolen/rigged.

Oh, I know you think the corals too young for me. You have not worn them since you left off dotted muslins. You insist upon growing old. I insist upon remaining young.

There is only one expression for truth: the thought which repudiates injustice. If insistence on the good sides of life is not sublated in the negative whole, it transfigures its own opposite: violence.