(125 quotes found)
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”
Lao Tzu
“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude”
Cynthia Ozick
“An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations”
Charles de Montesquieu
“I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.”
Dorothy Parker
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The wife who always insists on the last word often has it.”
Kenneth Hutchin
“Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.”
Josh Billings
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”
John Henry Newman
