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Quotes About Assertion

And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.
~ Simone Elkeles
I won't have sex with you," she blurts out. He words slam into my libido like a bucket of water on a flame full of testosterone. I think my dick just twitched in protest.
~ Simone Elkeles
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
~ Sinclair Lewis
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
~ Sophia Loren
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I'm Australian; I know how to use a shotgun!
~ Max Barry
You think I need to say something to make it real.
~ Max Barry
What are you, your fucking mother? ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z
~ Max Brooks
When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here
~ Maya Angelou
Gabe thinks I look sexy,' she announced when Jace stopped in front of them. 'And he totally said you'd fuck me in these shoes.' She stopped and frowned, her thoughts suddenly muddled. 'Or maybe it was Mia who said you'd fuck me. Either way, I wanna be fucked in these shoes.
~ Maya Banks
I mean, how can you say no to an offer like that? Like this, Jesse said tonelessly. No.
~ Meg Cabot
It isn't deep, the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat. It is...too...deep! he insisted, outraged.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
His slow smile didn't soften his hawkish features. "You'll come to my bed. And you won't think it a waste of time.
~ Meljean Brook
We don't have to be controlled by what other people say; we don't have to try to control them with our words and special effects. We don't have to be manipulated, guilted, coerced, or forced into anything. We can open our mouths and take care of ourselves! Learn to say: "I love you, but I love me, too. This is what I need to do to take care of me." We
~ Melody Beattie
I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment. I have rights, and it is my responsibility to assert these rights. The decisions I make and the way I conduct myself will reflect my high self-esteem. My decisions will take into account my responsibilities to myself.
~ Melody Beattie
Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.
~ bell hooks
What the above argument amounts to is that, whatever else may be in perpetual flux, the meanings of words must be fixed, at least for a time, since otherwise no assertion is definite, and no assertion is true rather than false. There must be something more or less constant, if discourse and knowledge are to be possible.
~ Bertrand Russell
It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which there is no evidence, or to deny something for which there is very good evidence.
~ Bertrand Russell
I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.
~ Butch Trucks
I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.
~ Kenny Wormald
Every day of my life, I come against a conservative who wants me to shut up. I do believe I'm right and they are wrong.
~ Meghan McCain
I don't believe in poking nose in other people's matters, but when it comes to matters related to me or something that affects me, I will not shy away for saying something I believe.
~ Taapsee Pannu
If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.
~ Jose Canseco