Quotes About Assertion

The more you must assert your own reality to people, the crazier you seem.

That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.

But don't grovel. Don't apologize. Give him the facts

stiffened and his eyes narrowed. "You seem to forget that you are the girl I'm to marry," he said, in a tone less harsh. "Naturally, I don't want you around like this." "Well, until we are married," she said coldly, "it happens to be none of your business! If you'd like to change

No one ever says 'No' to Charles Walker!" "I believe I just did," said Katherine Barlow.

I could love you, I could kill you. I want this. This is how I make my mark, this is where I plant my flag, this is how I stake my claim, this is how I deny you, this is how I claim you, this is what you owe me, this is what I am taking, this is how I know I'm alive.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

I have no recollection of that ever happening.

Officially signed off on position I took a few

I get good marks at school, so I am not stupid. If I don't assert myself a bit, nobody else is going to. I have to assert myself by reasoned conversation, not sulks.

These are two poles in the soul's life: loss of self in what one is contemplating and self-willed assertion of what lies within the self. These are two great opposites. If you wish to attain real knowledge and permeate yourself with wisdom, self-will is lethal. In ordinary life, we know self-will only as prejudice—and prejudices always destroy higher insight.

This is true; we all say so.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Whenever the individual after he has entered the universal feels an impulse to assert himself as the particular, he is in temptation (Anfechtung), and he can labor himself out of this only by abandoning himself as the particular in the universal.

MRS. BESSEMER: Yes, sir? PUDOVKIN: If this is chicken consommé, so is Lake Louise. And you can tell the manager I said so. MRS. BESSEMER: But you're the manager, Mr. Pudovkin. PUDOVKIN (to the others): Well, I've heard all the excuses, but that's a new one.

what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."15

Christopher Hitchens for distilling, in a single phrase, a principle of discourse that could well arrest our slide toward the abyss: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."15 Let us pray that billions of us soon agree with him.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

It's a choice, it's a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

You had best never return, he said. You have it wrong, Maria told him. You had best stay away from me.

Who asked your opinion?' 'A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

My name's Cregg.