Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much...
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.
Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.
Murphy's miscellaneous laws: Your Security will insist on you leaving by 7:00 on the very day when you have to stay till 10:00 to meet an important deadline.
Murphy's cowboy laws: All cowboys who insist on wearing a shot shell bra belt will always be wearing rhinestones or sequins and have shinny guns with mother of pearl grips.
Murphy's cops laws: In general, a persons' innocence is often diametrically opposed to how much they insist that they are.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.