Insist Quotes

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

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.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

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.

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

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

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

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.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

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

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

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

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

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.