#insist

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. ↗

— Ford Frick

#insist #last #sarcasm #word

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#continues #failure #gap #gender #go

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#around #earth #how #insists #like

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#being #conceivable #content #creep #ground

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#always #doing #easy #fight #i

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#allow #any #care #choose #insistence

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#few #finds #him #his #insistent

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#human #human society #i #insist #invaded