It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and we may be impatient and rightly so, because it is not coming fast enough. But that is the way to go.
I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.
You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made. . . I say, "people," because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.
Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people. . . If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.
