#insist

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. ↗

— Steve Allen

#cheerleaders #insist #our #presidents #rational

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

— Ludwig Quidde

#ceased #curtailment #danger #grave #grave danger

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#demanding #fear #insistent #jondalar #love

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#illusory #insists #institutional #truth #truth is

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#free #free economy #free-market #guy #how

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

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall. ↗

— Dick York

#block #breath #doing #god #had