Wayne Dyer

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

American Psychologist

Leila Slimani

In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, 'No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don't agree with you.

French Writer

Conrad Wolfram

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

British Businessman

Todd Gitlin

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

American Sociologist

Ben Kingsley

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

English Actor

Paul Romer

Good law includes a commitment to transparency and an insistence that no person or entity with a conflict of interest should have influence on public policy decisions.

American Economist

Jim Webb

Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.

American Politician

Ko Wen-je

When we understand and respect Beijing's insistence on some aspects, we hope Beijing can understand and respect Taiwan's insistence on democracy and freedom.

Taiwanese Politician

Harold Brodkey

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

American Author

Ban Ki-moon

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

South Korean Leader

Insistence implies a strong, non-negotiable demand, often with emotion or urgency.

Firm Demand

Often suggests someone is using social or moral pressure to influence others.

Social Pressure

Excessive insistence can seem pushy or annoying in casual situations.

Potential Annoyance

Shows that a person holds firm to their beliefs or demands, often admiringly.

Strong Convictions

Indicates someone is not open to other ideas or compromise.

Unyielding Stance

It may be misread as stubbornness if not accompanied by valid reasons.

Potential Misjudgment

 himself is trying to figure a way to get out of the photograph or maybe by extension how to get out of prison I talked about how I think photography is a generous medium that allows us to insert ourselves into the image and the narrative that Marvin wrote about this photograph was based on his insistence

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 as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” In spite of his insistence that we’re all here to fart around, in spite of his deep concerns about the course of human existence,

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 don't want to move genes around this is about moving genes around it's not about chemicals it's not about our ridiculous passion for hormones our insistence on having bigger food better food singular food this isn't about rice crispies this is about keeping people alive and it's

 and philosophical intervention provided a new language to discuss feminist theory. Today, those conversations are still informed by de Beauvoir’s insistence that in the pursuit of equality, “there is no divorce between philosophy and life.” Of course, like any foundational work,

The meaning of life...

 hang out with friends, do homework and explore the world -- all the essentials for child development. We can get it right. We have the resources to get it right. What we need is the will and the insistence of Americans

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 and elevating him to important posts. Brutus was hesitant to conspire against the man who had treated him like a son, but in the end, Cassius's insistence and Brutus's own fear of Caesar's ambitions won out.

The great conspiracy...

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 in my green tea." Surprised by my insistence, the waiter took up the issue with the manager. Pretty soon, a lengthy discussion ensued, and finally the manager came over to me and said,

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 simply because it feels good, it is revolutionary. She is revolutionary. She is pushing back against society's insistence that she exist simply for men's pleasure or for reproduction.