#insist

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#inefficiency #insist #instead #need #raising

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. ↗

— Bill Murray

#counting #dance #does #doing #ended

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#around #earth #how #insists #like

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#argument #coherent #follow #hope #i

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#case #control #controls #enough #expert

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#country #crisis #effort #efforts #financial

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

— Sidney Poitier

#early #everyone #given #had #i

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely