#insists

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#already #anything #buy #cannot #consumers

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#around #earth #how #insists #like

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

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#insists #longer #loves #misery #nowadays

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#actor #as far as #because #comedy #considered

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#differs #good #good breeding #gracefully #high

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

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

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes. ↗

— Albert Finney

#changes #elaboration #give #insists #more