Quotes About Assert

Never take what's offered, always ask for more.

I just love to defend!

I listen to everyone but I am the first to defend what I believe.

They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.

Heliodorus, tells me that there are many parts of the Scriptures which you seek and cannot find. But even if you have them all, affection is sure to assert its rights and to seek for itself more than it already has.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

The most you get is what you ask for.

I was able to tour successfully and attract a fairly wide audience, but it was hard to assert myself as a stand-up because people were more familiar with me as a TV character.

In Hudson, John Brown would assert his indictment of slavery to anybody who would listen. Jesse listened.

To be isolated is always to assert oneself numerically; when you assert yourself as one, that is isolation.

In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we cannot agree on much.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

KENNEL, YE SONS OF BITCHES!

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

What does California think of this? They will assert that the Wyoming business is doing business in California and thus must pay all state taxes, including the notorious $800 annual franchise fee. If you live in California know that you will have to do a lot more planning (and may have to pay more in state taxes) when using these strategies.

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

Freedom, I was beginning to realize, is something you have to insist upon.

I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

My dear sir, I do not argue, I inform.