Quotes About Assertion

People love to tell you what you should and shouldn't want, regardless of what you have to say about it.

Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed.

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that.

I vigorously deny hitting Ms. Sheridan.

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.

If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

He refills my drink without me having to ask, somehow ferreting out one last cup of the good stuff. He has claimed me, placed a flag in me: I was here first, she's mine, mine. It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.

there are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.

If anyone tried to contradict the statement that what is true is true independently of our recognizing it as such, he would by his very assertion contradict what he had asserted; he would be in a similar position to the Cretan who said that all Cretans are liars.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.

My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.

I don't hold my tongue for nobody.

Drew never argues with me because I carry very heavy power tools all the time.

Taiwan, by its nature, is in a unique international position and it has to stand up for itself where and when it can.

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.