#insist

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #mix #politics #proper #religion

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#insist #myself #people #surround #tell

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#first #first time #had #hard #himself

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#back #between #bit #characters #counted

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. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#continues #failure #gap #gender #go

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#around #earth #how #insists #like

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

— John Henry Newman

#being #conceivable #content #creep #ground

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