#insist

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#be happy #being #expected #happy #her

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

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

— Terry Eagleton

#illusory #insists #institutional #truth #truth is

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#bear #behind #easier #follow #i

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#began #century #desire #done #earth

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

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#am #happy #hegel #i #i am

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon. ↗

— John Bright

#been #favour #held #insisted #meeting

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. ↗

— Helen Garner

#book #completely #doing #engagement #i