#insist

My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now! ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#bad #been #coming #dragged #each

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#always #any #anybody #because #everything

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#best #i #insist #performers #still

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think

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

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

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

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#always #cookie #does #everybody #insists

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