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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
— Andre Gide
Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television ...
— Jeremy Bernstein
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.
— Swami Vivekananda
Perhaps Mr. Grey insists on all his employees being blonde. I'm wondering idly if that's legal.
— E.L. James
When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.
— Amy Dickinson
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
— Peter Greenaway
It is the supreme proof of a man being prosaic that he always insists on poetry being poetical.
— G.K. Chesterton
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
— Oscar Wilde
Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom.
— Anonymous
Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.
— Friedrich Holderlin
If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.
— Sun Tzu
He insists that I need nothing more than to let myself be carried away- and that even my greatest fears are unfounded.
— Paulo Coelho
Love insists the loved loves back
— Dante Alighieri
Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.
— William Trevor
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
— Robert Kennedy
Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.
— Donald Kingsbury
Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
— Pearl S. Buck
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
— Benjamin Disraeli
And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different. — Dana Gioia
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different. — Dana Gioia
There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
— Lemony Snicket
A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
— Neel Burton
It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
— Noam Chomsky
I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement.
— Brene Brown
resurrection insists that the darkness is actually surrounded by light - and the light is growing.
— Jeff Cook
I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.
— Victoria Aveyard
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.
— Jean Cocteau
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder?
— Rex Stout
Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
— Marcus Aurelius
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
— Henry Louis Gates
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
— Charles De Montesquieu
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into.
— Hisham Fawzi
We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
— Ani DiFranco
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
— Robert M. La Follette
Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
— Franz Kafka
There are no heroes in our world. No clear-cut evil either. Everyone involved insists that they're the righteous ones.
— Hiroshi Yamamoto
We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him.
— A.W. Tozer
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
— Theodor Adorno
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).
— Tom Robbins
Question the trustworthiness of someone who insists to be trusted without earning it...
— Assegid Habtewold
Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.
— Oswald Chambers
The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought.
— Andre Vltchek
New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.
— Thomas French
My mom insists that my friendships online aren't real. She says that until you meet someone in person, you don't really know them. I don't agree,
— Daniel H. Wilson
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
— Catherine Marshall
The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow
— John C. Maxwell
So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked.
"My tailor insists. — Sharon Cameron
"My tailor insists. — Sharon Cameron
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
— Christopher Lasch
The medicalized version of mortality, though, insists that you get into a wheelchair when you are in a hospital.
— Anonymous
After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.
— Wendy Shalit
Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.
— Marian Keyes
Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades).
— Seanan McGuire
My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child.
— Kurt Vonnegut
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
— Montesquieu
I'm coming with you," Kartik insists. "You'll get yourself killed," I argue. "Then it's a good day to die," he says,
— Libba Bray
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
— Taslima Nasrin
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
— Alain De Botton
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
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
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
— Werner Heisenberg
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
— Alan Perlis
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
— Nan Hayworth
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
— Arthur Bloch
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.
— Christoph Schonborn
He was like a husband so jealous that he insists his wife have the very dreams he has.
— Yukio Mishima
Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.
— Dante Alighieri
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
— Helen Frankenthaler
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
— Nathanael West
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
— Fred Barnes
Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ...
— Douglas Coupland
Now and then the universe just insists on changing your life in ways that you didn't ask it to.
— Robin Black
The Countess G - - insists upon it that he is a vampire.
— Alexandre Dumas
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
— Bill Vaughan
A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.
— Robert Breault
If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan