#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

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

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

— Ezra Pound

#insist #knowing #limited #men #mere

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#always #doing #easy #fight #i

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

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit