Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip the number two man in their leadership?
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.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
In a sense words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Increased revenues meaning higher taxes will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness when it was over I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that knowing Him they still insist on going their own way.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love of kindness of understanding of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
An author is a fool who not content with boring those he lives with insists on boring future generations.