Emily V. Gordon
Emily V. Gordon

When someone insists that you watch a show that's already been on for a few seasons, they're basically saying, 'Hey, you're not doing anything for the next five weeks, are you? Because have I got a plan for you every single night! It's 'Weeds!''

Eric Metaxas
Eric Metaxas

To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.

Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

George T. Conway III
George T. Conway III

Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.

Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald

The open-borders Right regularly insists that immigrants and their children are assimilating at a brisk clip. It would be nice to see them advocating as well, then, an English-only practice in all government communications.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield

In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

Jeremy Grantham
Jeremy Grantham

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.

Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.