Quotes About Assertion

Just because people say things, they're supposed to be true?

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

No matter what anybody says or thinks, nobody believes that I'm not the number one welterweight in Strikeforce. I think that's not even a question.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

To blindly and repeatedly assert one's own position, one's own righteousness, and one's own rectitude in the face of widely held opinion to the contrary was not democracy. It was an attempt at autocracy—a bid, as Lincoln said, to "rule or ruin in all events.

To think is to say no.

Every State-formation, every assertion of the power of the magistrate, every mechanical means of compelling order and of guaranteeing a safe course of life is therefore always something unnatural;

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

called to testify in a court case. Asked to identify himself, he announced that he was the world's greatest architect. When asked how he could make such a statement, he replied, with visible enjoyment and a gleam in his eye, that he had no choice, he was under oath.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it.

There are moments I get pretty passive and just have to be aggressive.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

I am an actress, period.

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Maka juga setiap kebawelan wanita harus dilawan dengan kebawelan lain.

Prithee, John, why do you not speak for yourself?

I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

I think someone just marked his territory.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

I'm not doing Bond.

I've never been called a bully in my life.