Quotes About Insist

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.

I think one of our cardinal fuckups is how we insist that even vicious whimsical crazy shit needs to make sense, add up, belong to a reason. We lay this pain on ourselves--there must be a reason behind this horror, there must, but I ain't adequate to findin' it, and that's my fault, so torture me some more.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

and in the din Stephen cried, 'I insist upon a boat – I protest… Jack took him by the elbow and propelled him with affectionate violence into the cabin. 'My dear sir,' he said, 'I am afraid you must not insist, or protest: it is mutiny, you know, and you would be obliged to be hanged.

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.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Only then, Hans would insist on committing another portrait against me.

I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind," as he puts it in the essay on Partisan Review, "we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. "It's a lazy man's meal., she always said. What laggard expects to eat before doing any work?

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Denial and affirmation are games which people play. There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

I'm going with you," he said. She frowned. "No, thank you." "I insist." "I don't need your services, Mr. Rohan." Cam could think of a number of services she was clearly in need of, most of which would be a pleasure for him to provide. "Obviously it will be to everyone's benefit for you to retrieve Ramsay and leave London as quickly as possible. I consider it my civic duty to hasten your departure.

You're not a wallflower. But you have my permission to hide in corners, my sweet—so long as you take me with you. In fact, I'll insist on it.

I'll help you catch up with the mowers if you'll show me how to do that." The farmer glanced at West's tailored clothes. "You're not dressed for field work, sir." "I insist," West said, shrugging out of his jacket and handing it to Kathleen. "With any luck, I'll develop a callus to show people afterward.

Lacuna adores me!" Toot shrilled. "We are comrades in arms," Lacuna said. "Then I will kill you." "It is love!" Toot insisted. "When you're dead," Lacuna said, "I get your teeth." Toot beamed broadly. "See? She loves me for me!

We don't mind if someone wants to give us advice; we only object if they insist we take it.

I am a bad refugee because I insist on seeing the historical reasons that create refugees and the historical reasons for denying refugee status to certain populations.

The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.

We must insist, contrary to the "free will" of humanism, that God did not merely "permit" evil, but he decreed it; otherwise, it could not have originated.

Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something.