#insist

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. ↗

— Kent McCord

#business #fade #friendships #hollywood #insist

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#anything #characterizes #communication #cultural #failures

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#both #full #going #i #insisted

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#completely #cut #deficit #deficit reduction #face

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

— Rupert Murdoch

#going #hear #i #insist #put

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

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