Quotes About Assertion

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don't get what you don't ask for.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

Females have always been the biggest consumers of spiritual hoaxes such as astrology, crystals, seances, and other metaphysical claims about the world that rest simply on assertion rather than scientific proof.

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

I can't prove it, but I can say it.

I proved it. I'm the best - I proved it.

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore

But the wood has endured. In splinters and shavings, gorgeously encased, it has traveled the world over and found a joyous welcome among every race. For it states a fact. Hounds are checked, hunting wild. A horn calls clear through the covert. Helena casts them back on the scent. Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope.

Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope.

Charles asked. "We did not!

No is a better word than Yes

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

Other people will say different, but I'm the best Georgia Tech wide receiver.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.

Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I

The two-by-four by the door sometimes ya need it to get their attention - Grannie Gin

Anger surges in me and I stand up. You have no right - He's on his feet towering over me. What if I want to have a right?