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Quotes About Assertion

To be silent is to be passive.
~ Octavia Spencer
Italy no longer wants to be a servant to silly rules.
~ Matteo Salvini
But there is a long history within the far right of right-wing media positioning itself as the only true and honest media. To promote a world viewpoint distinct from that shared by the majority, it was critical to assert that everyone else simply didn't have the correct information on which to base decisions. That is a far easier task than accusing most of the country of being crazy.
~ Stuart Stevens
Then I mouthed the sweetest four words in the English language: I told you so.
~ Sue Grafton
the time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
~ Sue Monk Kidd
time to assert one's right is when it's denied!" "I'm sorry
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.
~ Susan Sontag
Every style is a means of insisting on something.
~ Susan Sontag
Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it.
~ Susanna Clarke
If you are to gain power in your household, you need to come face-to-face with the ways in which you may subtly or overtly idealize men or their power. You need to gain the comfort to face a man down and to strongly assert your wishes and needs for change. As Mahony writes, "Is there any way to expunge the glittery aura of male status? Only by changing one's feelings. Women who can't will scurry like a scullery maid or live with guilt.
~ Joshua Coleman
Es sabido que en política internacional las imposiciones deben sustentarse por las armas. Dicho de otro modo: cada nación tiene la importancia de su ejército. El que mea más lejos es el más poderoso y puede imponer su voluntad a los demás.
~ Juan Eslava Galán
She just wants the world to know she was a hurricane and not a zephyr.
~ Julia Baird
What are you doing here?"Lady Vickers asked, turning her frosty glare to Sebastian. "Exactly what you think, my lady," he said.
~ Julia Quinn
There was little less appealing than being decisively contradicted while one was trying to make a grand point.
~ Julia Quinn
Cuándo te has negado a un desafío? —Nunca —respondió, mirándolo directamente a los ojos. Él sonrió, y su mirada se volvió ardiente. —Esa es mi chica —murmuró él. —No soy… —Lo serás —susurró él, y antes de que ella pudiera pronunciar otra palabra, su boca apresó la de ella en un beso ardiente.
~ Julia Quinn
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'
~ Rush Limbaugh
I'm going to give input when I need to. When it needs to be said.
~ Kyrie Irving
I don't have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.
~ Kamal Haasan
When I get finished with you, Lilenta, every male within a fifty mile radius will know you're mine." "So
~ Evangeline Anderson
Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world.
~ Eve Ensler
Just because someone makes an inappropriate comment does not make it true!
~ Evelyn Tribole
That is a fart without wind....." in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.
~ Faye Kellerman
The only power you have is the word no.
~ Frances McDormand
I don't hafta take his sass
~ Harper Lee