Insist Quotes

ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. - Ambrose Bierce

You've got 20 years of the Marines standing by their product and insisting this is the future of their force, their way of war fighting. - Richard Aboulafia

You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught. - Protagoras

You may not want to be a god, Perseus, but after feats like yours, men will worship you. Be good to them. Be better than we were. And if you insist on continuing this mundane human existence, I won't have you do it alone. You're the son of Zeus, after all! - Zeus

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. - Henry Campbell-Bannerman

You have given us something more than money -- you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq... Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us. - Ibrahim Jafari

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

Yes, that is true... A mutual friend of ours told me that Alexandra wanted to give me that script, so she didn't come out of nowhere. But it did take me a while before I read it. Then she insisted every morning and after a few months I read it and I thought, 'Oh my God, it's very good.' - Isabelle Huppert

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled. - Kevin Nealon