Quotes About Assertiveness

I quietly quaffed my cognac, discreetly admiring Lana's legs. Longer than the Bible and a hell of a lot more fun, they stretched forever, like an Indian yogi or an American highway shimmering through the Great Plains or the southwestern desert. Her legs demanded to be looked at and would not take no, non, nein, nyet, or even maybe for an answer.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

A person who is not ashamed will do whatever he wants.

Always do your job without caring what others will think about it.

Don't care about what people think about you. They don't put food on your table or pay your bills.

Don't quarrel with a person whose voice is louder than yours.

Strong and decided measures prevail best with troublesome people.

The anvil never takes advice from the hammer.

When all men say you are a dog, it is time to bark.

I don't want to hear another word about my attitude. i don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, and I sure as hell don't want anyone second-guessing what I do. (Mitch Rapp)

I don't need men like Ross on my side. I just need them to get out of my way. (Mitch Rapp)

If I should later come to see that I did wrong, well, then I shall of course be sorry, but as it is I have been unable to see how else I could possibly have acted. When somebody tells me decisively, 'Get out of my house, the sooner the better, in half an hour rather than an hour,' well then, my dear fellow, it doesn't take a quarter of an hour for me to leave, never to return either.

My parents and my whole family. Tersteeg, and along with him a lot of fellows who knew me when I was with Goupil & Co., went so far in their disapproval of all my doings that these last years, instead of wasting any more time on attempts to convince them, I, who have no time to waste, have simply given them the cold shoulder in my turn - and let them say, think, do whatever they like without minding it the least little bit.

I want to be the one to say: "This is what I'll do, this is how I'll do it, and now see? I've done it.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'une fille est vieille et moche qu'elle est moins chiante et exigeante qu'une bombasse de vingt ans. Ce qui caractérise les femmes, c'est qu'elles peuvent faire profil bas pendant des mois avant d'annoncer la couleur.

Trink löslichen Kaffee. Wehr Dich.

Il y a une forme de force, qui n'est ni masculine, ni féminine, qui impressionne, affole, rassure. Une faculté de dire non, d'imposer ses vues, de ne pas se dérober.

If she would work he wouldn't have to keep her in the house. She wouldn't be crazy, and she could tell him to go to hell. Did you ever think about that, my brilliant daughter? That maybe she's crazy because she can't tell him to go to hell? When a woman can't tell a man to go to hell, I have noticed, she is often crazy.

Arthur is smart and he has words, but so do I. I stood there arguing with him. Then, in the middle of a sentence, he said sharply, "I'll decide when the vacation is over." I stared at him. I don't know what he saw in my face, but his own softened perceptibly. Very quietly he said, "It doesn't mean what it meant when you were young.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

I'll splatter whatever I want, whenever I want,

I'd say she pretty much handed you your balls in a paper bag,

Don't be a luddy-duddy! Don't be a mooncalf! Don't be a jabbernowl! You're not those, are you?