Top 161 Insist Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Insist Quotes from famous people such as Alain de Botton, Orlando Bloom, Simon Mainwaring, Joe Lonsdale, Phillip E. Johnson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain de Botton
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.
Orlando Bloom
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.
Simon Mainwaring
A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility – what we might call a culture of virtue.
Joe Lonsdale
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.
Phillip E. Johnson
When my husband is away and I’m by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes
Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy – the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health – should provide those funds.
Steven Rattner
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.
Padmapriya Janakiraman
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect – but maybe the universe doesn’t insist on cause and effect.
Edward M. Lerner
If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They’ve hidden more than their fair share.
Matt Gaetz
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
Pat Buckley
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
In the end, ‘Star Wars’ insists that you can’t be redeemed without attachment. That’s the strongest message of the saga, and that’s what makes it speak to people’s deepest selves.
Cass Sunstein
If I’m on the plane, I insist on being comfortable. I don’t believe in getting dressed up to fly. There’s no reason for that, especially when it’s 16 hours to fly internationally.
Erika Jayne
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
Andrea Bocelli
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun
I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Mitt Romney
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin
So, when directors come up to me and ask if they should just narrate my role, I would say no and insist on knowing the whole story. It would give me a better idea of what I’m going to be a part of because when I look back at my career later on in life, nobody is going to remember my screen time.
Kalyani Priyadarshan
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Andrew Johnson
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.
Ralph Peters
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.
John Nelson Darby
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by ‘mere machines,’ there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
Daniel Dennett
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.
Simon Greenleaf
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
Valerie Harper
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Christopher Hitchens
True friendships don’t fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Kent McCord
I actually use Randy Orton as an example to my son because he wants to start training in January. My son is a big kid – he’s 6’1″, 205 – and I insist that he must watch and learn from Randy’s style.
Rey Mysterio
Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left.
Amy Wax
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
I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfectio

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.
Mona Eltahawy
As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant – whether it produces chemicals or records – accept responsibility for what it produces.
Tipper Gore
Democrats are just as wrong to insist the law is perfect, that the law doesn’t have things that need to be fixed, and to pretend that the law did wave a magic wand and make everything in the health care system fixed.
Conner Eldridge
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there’s always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Howard Nemerov
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.
John Polanyi
Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient – for him, personally.
George T. Conway III
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Alan Dundes
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
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
Jacques Chirac
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
Jose Maria Aznar
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.
John Doolittle
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster
A smartphone is a computer – it’s not built using a computer – the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free – you should insist on that – applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
Richard Stallman
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he’s not mad.
Sarah Pinborough
Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.
Mark McKinnon
Those who know Neymar know his great quality and how special he is. And I insist again, we have to take care of players like that; they illuminate football. It’s players like him that make football have any sense.
Dani Alves
The Obama Administration continues to talk about the ‘policies of the past’ and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
Marsha Blackburn
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‘I write for money.’ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
Maya Angelou
We insist on celebrating lone heroic path-finders, but even the most admired and the most successful inventors are part of a more remarkable supply chain of innovators who are largely ignored for the simpler mythology of one man or one eureka moment.
Vaclav Smil