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Quotes About Assert

Hinduism, with its openness, its respect for variety, its acceptance of all other faiths, is one religion that should be able to assert itself without threatening others.
~ Shashi Tharoor
A primary function of the Strict Father model is the protection of innocent children. Opposition to abortion provides an ideal opportunity to assert a protective function and justify Strict Father morality.
~ George Lakoff
I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.
~ Jonathan Granoff
The actual existence of the subject of the proposition is therefore only apparently, not really, implied in the predication, if an essential one: we may say, A ghost is a disembodied spirit, without believing in ghosts. But an accidental, or non-essential, affirmation, does imply the real existence of the subject, because in the case of a non-existent subject there is nothing for the proposition to assert.
~ John Stuart Mill
Bill was sniffing suspiciously at Tucker's ankles. Tucker made propitiating noises and wondered why the young lady couldn't have had a nice little Pekingese. He advanced a nervous hand towards bill, assuring him that he was a good dog. Bill was more interested in trying to assert whether he was a good man. He came to the conclusion that no steps need at the moment be taken to evict the constable and went off again to continue operations in the back garden.
~ Georgette Heyer
You're in my light and this is my special spot so go away.
~ Sarra Manning
To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.
~ Stephen King
Sit on him if you have to.
~ Erin Hunter
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
~ Sherry Turkle
To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.
~ Alex Morgan
Lying is the message. Its not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power of the truth itself. The Putin Paradigm, New York Review of Books
~ Masha Gessen
As we exit the E.U. and reassert ourselves as a great global trading nation, we have a unique opportunity to redefine our relationship with Africa.
~ Priti Patel
My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.
~ Ilaiyaraaja
I'm going to give input when I need to. When it needs to be said.
~ Kyrie Irving
I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
~ Veronica Roth
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.
~ Russell Smith
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
~ Hamza Yusuf
hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, I am here!
~ Bram Stoker
The revolutionary environmentalists twist science to get what they want, saying they're using the best available science to determine public policy, when in fact these are code words for cherry picking from a repertoire of biased science studies. Arguing with the Greenies' faulty science is like shouting into the wind, because they will disregard or minimize evidence that disputes any position they are trying to assert. Your points will be ignored, and you will be demonized.
~ Brian Herbert
Carpe Jugulum, read Agnes aloud. That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means- Go for the throat
~ Terry Pratchett
Signori, chi ha qualcosa da dire si faccia avanti, e taccia.
~ Karl Kraus