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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Author: Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881) | Theme: Human | Clicks: 85 | Rank: 0 | Fav

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Author: Boles³aw Prus (1847 -1912) | Theme: Human | Clicks: 78 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001) | Theme: Woman | Clicks: 102 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Author: Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 181 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.

Author: Martin Lewis Perl (1927) | Theme: Parents | Clicks: 217 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Ted Olson (1940) | Theme: World | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's miscellaneous laws: 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.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 74 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's cowboy laws: 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.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Cowboys | Clicks: 87 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's cops laws: In general, a persons' innocence is often diametrically opposed to how much they insist that they are.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Cop Force | Clicks: 97 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Herodotus (484BC-409BC) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 103 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: John Thomas Flynn (1882 - 1964) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 95 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Author: Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski (1821 - 1881) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 112 | Rank: 0 | Fav

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Author: Taylor Caldwell (1900 - 1985) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 117 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Author: Russell Baker (1925) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 132 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 381 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Author: Confucius (551 i.Hr - 479 i.Hr) | Theme: Life | Clicks: 415 | Rank: 9.67 | Fav
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