Insists Quotations

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.

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

Mrs. Richardson insists on that. But there are a lot of changes. We will have a new front door. We are putting up shutters that will open out. We are going to make this place look like a chalet in the Alps. We say it is 'The Chalet' next to the White Horse Motel.

She has learn to throw what she's good at. She's a heck of a talent, but sometimes she insists on throwing other pitches.

Lucas is so special and unusual -- and so rarely around -- that it is a different kind of phenomenon, more of a brand concept. He insists on a certain kind of success.

We won't accept the majority of rigid measures the government insists on.

If the government insists on this point, it will be a pity.

Greyhound has a terrific safety record. The union insists that drivers who are fatigued have a right to book off. And the company has a policy: If a driver says he or she is fatigued, then Greyhound doesn't use them.

There is a person who insists upon making reform every time he opens his mouth but tradition and culture should be protected resolutely.

The Palestinian Cabinet welcomes a meeting with Sharon but insists that such a meeting will not take place without the necessary preparation,

He insists on his innocence and will defend it vigorously.

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Stephen F. Austin insists on loading the box and blitzing, they absolutely insist on it.

Kofi is aware that the war has had casualties and insists all sides do everything to minimize casualties and to insure that all humanitarian norms regarding conflicts be respected.

This race is more than uphill. At this point, for a team to come in and try to right the ship is going to be very tough. It's going to be difficult as long as the candidate insists on being the candidate, the campaign manager and the strategist.

Though evidence shows that the terrorists are interested in acquiring nuclear weapons to use against our cities, a learned writer for the New York Review of Books insists that the real weapons of mass destruction are world poverty and environmental abuse. Of course, world poverty is rarely mentioned by terrorists, and those known to be involved have almost all been well fed and are well to do.

Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound,

What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Of particular concern is the Commission's latest demand, that the internal workings of Windows be documented and licensed, which can open the door to the production of clones. The Commission confuses disclosure of the source code with disclosure of the internals and insists that it will fine the company if it fails to address this.

The government will be put in the dock in Parliament if it insists on voting for a referral to the Security Council. Left parties have formulated some opinion on this. We will convey it to the government. If government still goes ahead with it, we are free to take steps to bring the government to its knees.

As long as Prime Minister Mori insists on staying, a gloomy mood will linger.

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.

Amazon insists it is still on the path to double-digit operating margin, despite the fact the 2005 guidance distinctly suggests a reversal of this course with declining incremental operating margin. Clearly, something is amiss here.

Almost 700 Local 150 members earned cost-of-living increases under these agreements because they are the most efficient, highly skilled workers in the industry. Rather than follow the lead of the rest of the industry, Levy insists on wage and benefits cuts.

Running for attorney general, she loses more respectably, but she still loses. This is not great news for Pirro, but she still runs better in a race she insists she is not running.

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

If the U.S. accepts this consensus, the proposal is likely to be adopted. But if the U.S. insists on further amendments, we are likely to be worse off. Countries hostile to human rights protection are keen to introduce amendments that would weaken the new council.

I want to stress that China is a peace-loving country... China insists on a road of peaceful development and China has no desire nor the ability to considerably expand its military armaments.

Condoleezza Rice insists that all she wants be is the best secretary of state she can be, and can't imagine running for president. Perhaps. But a lot of other people have no trouble imagining it. Four years is an eternity in politics, and the secretary of state has a lot of heavy lifting ahead.

The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the Church as the exclusive and divinely sanctioned earthly instrument of man's redemption. The East (India), however, insists that man is the sole cause of his higher development, for it believes in "self- liberation.

The union insists that drivers who are fatigued have a right to book off. And the company has a policy: If a driver says he or she is fatigued, then Greyhound doesn't use them. You can't have it any other way.

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

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

We in ODM are ready for dialogue with the Government over the review process, but if it insists to have its own way, we will have no alternative but to come with a parallel panel.

It's hard to know what they were thinking. It's never too late for the chairman to make the right decision. But if the chairman insists on it, we'll go forward with that hearing. We fully expect to win. My hope is they put down their objections and move one.

I can confirm there was interest on the part of West Ham. It is really sad that FC Porto insists on not letting him leave.