Quotes with insists

  • The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
  • The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
  • Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • John F. Kennedy Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jonathan Raban Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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  • Russell Baker Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Salman Rushdie The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan 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
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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