#insist

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

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

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#always #among #armaments #demand #disarmament

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#ever #i #insist #military #powerful

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#another #duties #her #his #i

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership? ↗

— Bill Kristol

#down #durbin #insist #leadership #man

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me. ↗

— Jon Secada

#contract #english #even #got #i