Quotes about Insist
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
- William Barclay Q
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- Ephesians 4:17
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being reasonable that we become ourselves, unreasonable.
- Thomas Merton
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
- Jack Kerouac
He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.
- Ulysses S. Grant
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
- Maya Angelou
We must always deal from strength and insist on verification of every agreement. In my meetings with the General Secretary I repeated several times a Russian proverb—"doveryai no proveryai"—"trust but verify."
- Ronald Reagan
That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.
- Dorothy Sayers
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
- William Barclay