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  • Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

    People   Puddles   Fetch  
  • Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

  • Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.

    Running   Real   Past  
    Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.124, Canongate Books
  • That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

    Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.53, Canongate Books
  • 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 (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House
  • Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

    Wise   Pride   Cutting  
  • After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. 'And he could get them right anyway by magic,' Millie told me, 'if he wasn't too lazy to learn how.... But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person's name. If a person isn't important to him, he always forgets their name.' When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name.

    Fun   Character   Names  
  • What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

  • 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?

  • we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

    Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.128, Transaction Publishers
  • Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

  • People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

  • 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.

    Change   God   Christian  
  • The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

    George Saintsbury (2008). “Notes on a Cellar-Book”, p.236, Univ of California Press
  • Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

    Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
  • Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

    Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • 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.

    Daughter   Mother   Mean  
    Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin
  • Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

    Gone   World   Made  
    C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.46, HarperCollins UK
  • ...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

    Moving   Tasks   Slides  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.226, Faber & Faber
  • Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are the bad voices. The only guide you can afford to listen to is the obsessive, lovestruck thing inside you that keeps insisting it finds some particular subject utterly fascinating. Do not shame this part of yourself. Take it by the hand and lead it to safety.

    Hands   Voice   Safety  
  • Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.

  • The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

    Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press
  • 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.

    Religious   Truth   Idols  
    Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books
  • The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

  • Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

    Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

    Source: www.progressive.org
  • 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.

    Life   Time   Giving Up  
  • 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.

    Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media
  • But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

    Dream   Dark   Past  
    Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
  • I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

    Girl   Daughter   Sorry  
    "Kate Winslet: 'I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks'". Interview with Simona Siri, www.vanityfair.it. May 30, 2012.
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