Marilyn Monroe

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

American Actress

John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

American President

Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Swiss Philosopher

Maya Angelou

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

American Poet

Sidney Poitier

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

American Actor

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Russian Novelist

Ina Garten

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

American Author

Tony Bennett

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

American Musician

Shelby Lynne

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Confucius

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

Chinese Philosopher

Use 'insist' to express your strong belief, showing you're confident and assertive in your stance.

Strong Conviction

Employ 'insist' when others are skeptical or doubtful about your claim to emphasize your certainty.

Opposing Doubt

Use 'insist' to convey emotional intensity or urgency, often to persuade others.

Emotional Intensity

'Insist' often implies that you are demanding something and expect it to be granted without dispute.

Assertive Demand

Use it when you anticipate refusal but are not willing to accept it.

Refusal Rejected

'Insist' is used when you repeatedly assert a point to show unyielding adherence to your opinion.

Repeated Assertion

To 'insist' is to stand firm on a stance, often in the face of opposition or indifference.

Standing Firm

 So, in that pond or in that stream the worm will go find a mate, it will lay a bunch of eggs, those eggs hatch and they burrow into mosquito larva. And they insist themselves in a mosquito larva, so when the mosquitoes emerge and they fly out, their cysts are still there and that mosquito lives its normal life,

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 claiming total understanding of the world around them. One such example finds three monks debating a temple flag rippling in the wind. The first monk refers to the flag as a moving banner, while the second monk insists that they are not seeing the flag move, but rather the wind blowing.

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 These Anti-Federalists were especially worried by the text's apparent lack of protections for individual liberties. As the conventions proceeded, many of these critics shifted from opposing the Constitution entirely to insisting on adding an explicit declaration of rights.

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 We paid a lot of money for that information, be we didn't get it. The second question that I'd like to ask, rather Suppose I ask them to contact the spirit of my deceased father-in-law, as an example. Why do they insist on saying -- remember, they speak into this ear --

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 but more than made up for it by spending more time making progress. So with your emails, insisting on always doing the very most important thing first could lead to a meltdown. Waking up to an inbox three times fuller than normal could take nine times longer to clear.

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 as well as social, economic, and cultural rights, such as the right to education and the right to freely choose one's occupation and be paid and treated fairly. The declaration takes no sides as to which rights are more important, insisting on their universality,

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 those kinds of you know slings and arrows as it were course everyone in public life it's used to them but you know people say well gee boys she's really tough while she plays politics like the men boys she really knows they insisted she knows how to get things

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 already happening because of his degenerative eye disease guru's journey will end at the center there's nowhere else for him to go but lowness still insists on offering him the best life he can possibly experience we're trying to save the species but you

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 The greatest grift in contemporary economic life is the neoliberal idea that the only purpose of the corporation and the only responsibility of executives is to enrich themselves and shareholders. The new economics must and can insist

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 You can survive it. I know it's hard. It may not be painless, quick or easy, but you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion

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Opposing Doubt

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