To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire about philosophy, personality, instinct, art, magic
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.Quote by Taylor Caldwell
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski
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.Quote by John Thomas Flynn about vitality, praise
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.Quote by Herodotus about being, man
In general, a persons' innocence is often diametrically opposed to how much they insist that they are.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, people
All cowboys who insist on wearing a shot shell bra belt will always be wearing rhinestones or sequins and have shinny guns with mother of pearl grips.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, mother
Your Security will insist on you leaving by 7:00 on the very day when you have to stay till 10:00 to meet an important deadline.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about security, day
Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.Quote by Ted Olson about world, life
Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about parents, school, love
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, future
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.Quote by Mary Kay Ash about woman, love
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.Quote by Boles³aw Prus about people, sacrifice, self-control, nature, human imperfections
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.Quote by Henri-Frederic Amiel about people, perfection, man