#insist

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#making #party #peace #preparation #prepared

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#end #fit #i #i do #in the end

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

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

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 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

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#class #class consciousness #consciousness #destinies #general

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed