Insist Quotes

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

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.

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

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.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.