Insistent Quotations

I think my clients would tell you I'm a problem solver. I'm not there to agree with people. I'm there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not.

The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

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.

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.

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

My assistant told me there was a very insistent boy waiting to see me, who was a bit too cocky for his own good.

We are absolutely insistent that the mandate should only fall on those individuals for whom insurance is affordable.

You have given us something more than money -- you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq, ... Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us.

You have both sides poles apart and insistent on finding some answer to that question in advance of the hearing, which no one is entitled to, ... Late Edition.

They are the principal opponent to the whole thing, and it's very difficult for me to understand why. Invariably, at the end of the day, the German representatives always put restrictions back on the table that they are absolutely insistent about.

That is what opened the door and drove us to be insistent that there was more to the story than what the Air Force said.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.