#insist

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ↗

— William Barclay

#going #him #insist #know #knowing

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem. ↗

— John Doolittle

#democrats #efforts #facts #faith #forth

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

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#already #anything #buy #cannot #consumers

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

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing. ↗

— James MacArthur

#insisted #mother #normal #upbringing

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ↗

— Don Marquis

#always #cardinal #insist #punctuality #subordinates

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