#insisted

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

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#insisted #kicked #lessons #many #mom

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #billion #breaks #certainly #could

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

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

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

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#basis #different #discrimination #ideologies #insisted

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.' ↗

— Ariel Winter

#brother #dad #fans #got #insisted

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. ↗

— Maria Monk

#around #doubts #experience #felt #give