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Quotes About Assertion

Where I agree with the president, I'll state that I agree with the president. Where I disagree, I'll state that I disagree.
~ Lee Zeldin
For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.
~ Maxime Bernier
Money is a way of expressing no compromise.
~ Steve Wynn
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
~ Leslie Stephen
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
~ James Whistler
I'm not averse to telling people off.
~ Damian Lewis
You talkin' to me?
~ Robert De Niro
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument
~ Robert Half
To accept this work today is to assert the purpose of the people of America that the freedom of the human spirit and human mind which has produced the world's great art and all its science—shall not be utterly destroyed. —President Franklin D.
~ Robert M. Edsel
Robin: I'm sure you've learnt to bake, but you have not learned to handle Much. The phrases that you need my lady, are No, No you can't, and No, get out of here before I throw something at you.
~ Robin McKinley
I have a better idea,' said she. 'Know that under a mortal name am I mistress of the Palace of Kama in Khaipur.' 'The Fornicatorium, madam?' She frowned. 'As such is it often known to the vulgar, and do not call me 'madam' in the same breath-- it smacks of ancient jest. It is a place of rest, pleasure, holiness and much of my revenue.
~ Roger Zelazny
I-love-you is active. It affirms itself as force--against other forces. Which ones? The thousand forces of the world, which are, all of them, disparaging forces (science, doxa, reality, reason, etc) Or again: against language.
~ Roland Barthes
OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general.
~ Lee Child
Casey Nice said, "Jesus Christ." "I don't think so," I said. "No beard. No sandals.
~ Lee Child
and watched the truck squeal away, each tire insisting the other three were wrong.
~ Lee Child
Firstly, I have no idea what you're talking about. I run my diner. That's it. Period, full stop. I have nothing else going on the side. And secondly, even if I did, what have you got that I could possibly want?
~ Lee Child
guy with the money stood up.
~ Lee Child
Reacher had no patience for people who claimed that y was a vowel.
~ Lee Child
Art is justice"—this proposition reflects the Socratic assertion that virtue is knowledge.
~ Leo Strauss
What I tell you three times is true.
~ Lewis Carroll
I've a right to think, said Alice sharply. Just about as much right, said the Duchess, as pigs have to fly. ~ Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 ~
~ Lewis Carroll
I am real! said Alice, and began to cry.
~ Lewis Carroll
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.
~ Lewis Carroll
And if I talk too loud, its just that I'm trying to be heard.
~ Libba Bray