Insistent Quotes

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu

Him, Few, Agree

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Great, Sad

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
Paul Simon

Difference, Bigger, Agreement

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
Jarvis Cocker

Maybe, Decide, Guess

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.
Tippi Hedren

Strong, Fight, Woman

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
Max Lerner

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Alva Myrdal

Peace, Men, Cannot

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
Bill Bruford

Music, Saying, Remember

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
Peter Maxwell Davies

Government, Business, Happen

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
Amanda Hocking

Experience, Smart, Fun

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
Leni Riefenstahl

Life, Happiness, Alone

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.
Helen Slater

Experience, Mother, Selfish

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

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna

Duty, Taxes, Obvious

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