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Quotes About Insists

The conversation changed. The term "rape culture" started to circulate widely. It insists that a wider culture generates individual crimes and that both must be addressed—and can be.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist: that's why bad love is still good love. It may make us unhappy, but it insists that the mechanical and the material needn't be in charge
~ Julian Barnes
In the final analysis, jealousy itself is something like a pet cat that insists on its rights but does not accept its duties.
~ K?b? Abe
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed, Ehrenreich makes it crystal clear throughout the book that she despises monotheism as a form of "deicide" that insists on killing every other god and leads eventually to modern science, which kills everything else.
~ Jeffrey J. Kripal
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
The Countess G—— insists upon it that he is a vampire.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Love insists the loved loves back
~ Dante Alighieri
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
~ Montesquieu
I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. It may be disguised as belonging, but real belonging doesn't necessitate disdain.
~ Brene Brown
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
~ Henry James
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn't; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink insists; red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue
~ Virginia Woolf
I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.
~ Harold Rabinowitz
Trump says nothing at all, nothing of substance, anyway. You just think he is, because he insists he is, and uses the word 'frankly' a lot.
~ Will Cain
The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.
~ Beatrice M. Hinkle
You can't eat some of a dumpling and put it back,' Oak insists. 'That's revolting.' Cardan considers that villainy takes many forms, and he is good at all of them.
~ Holly Black
the evil desire for autonomy is so ingrained in fallen man's thinking that he insists that he has such freedom, and even asserts that the Bible acknowledges it.
~ Unknown
Yet the body insists on the struggle for life. Why?
~ Rachel Kadish
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
~ Henry James
If the public insists it has the right to know, which I very much doubt, perhaps the people should go and face for themselves armed terrorists hell-bent on killing every single American they can.
~ Marcus Luttrell