#insist

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#accountable #adult #adult life #after #better

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#breakfast #dreams #insist #people #table

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#certain #go #god #i #i believe

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#differs #good #good breeding #gracefully #high

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

— Confucius

#complicated #insist #making #really #simple

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #big #decide #forget #hurdle

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#faith #fulfilled #good #good faith #indian

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#born #had #india #insist #lived

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#insist #money #spending #time #us