#insistent

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#any #being #i #i remember #insistent

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. ↗

— Helen Slater

#being #better #better mother #creative #daughter

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#demanding #fear #insistent #jondalar #love

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#began #century #desire #done #earth

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#business #concessions #government #happen #insistent

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#decide #fairly #generally #guess #i

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. ↗

— Max Lerner

#insistent #life #most #off #pay

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. ↗

— Joseph McKenna

#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way. ↗

— Paul Simon

#bigger #did #differ #difference #each