Insisting Quotes

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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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

  Men, Knowing, Tragedy

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• Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Perseverance, Fate, Destiny

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• Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

  Max Lucado

  Tough Times, Tough

  Source: thebrinkonline.com

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• Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Optimism, Madness

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• Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dream, World, Lasts

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Love You, Justice, Community

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

  C. S. Lewis

  Gone, World, Made

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.46, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

  John Grisham

  Confidence, Fear, Being Alone

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2016

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• Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

  Jacques Ellul

  Change, God, Christian

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

  Daniel Burnham

  Motivational, Hope, Work

  "Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities" by Charles Moore, Vol. 2, (p. 147), 1921.

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Truth, Idols

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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  Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

  Bill Nye

  Abstinence, Has Beens

  "One Of The Most Thoughtful Videos About The Right To Choose That I’ve Seen Yet" by Brandon A. Weber, bigthink.com. 2016.

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• There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

  Daniel Handler

  Play, Sound, World

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• Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.

  Naomi Klein

  Artist, People, Culture

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• It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Struggle, Identity, Cost

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.62, New World Library

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• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Order, Risk

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jack Welch

  People, Excellence, Asking

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  Andrew Manis

  Strong, Hard Work, Responsibility

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