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Quotes About Insistence

If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.
~ Maxwell Maltz
We have always found your mortal insistence on certainties strange. Nothing is as clear as you wish it to be. You have walked your path blindly until now. Time to open your eyes.
~ Megan Chance
We need' is always code for 'I want.
~ Unknown
My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction. "Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.
~ Mina Loy
I Want A Puppy! Right Here! Right Now!
~ Mo Willems
This is an example of why the humanists have always insisted that you don't learn to think wholly from one language: you learn to think better from linguistic conflict, from bouncing one language off another.
~ Northrop Frye
You get some rest. We'll talk later." "I'd rather not," I said nicely. "Rest is important," he insisted.
~ Obert Skye
We also follow Peter Perla's insistence, in his The Art of Wargaming (1990), on using the contracted compound "wargaming" (not "war gaming") to represent the form's characteristic synthesis of topical simulation and ludic play.
~ Unknown
You are too good for me," I said. "You are a luxury I cannot afford. Despite this, I insist you come with me today. I will buy you dinner and spend hours waxing rhapsodic over the vast landscape of wonder that is you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I am telling you three times.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.
~ Unknown
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
~ Genesis 19:3
But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
~ Luke 23:5
But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.
~ Luke 23:23
“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
~ Acts 12:15