Quotes About Assertion

Why should I be expected to shut up about everything I believe in?

If it's true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

You've changed the metre,' said Philippa. 'I reserve the right,' said Lymond, 'to change the metre. Don't interrupt.

I do not ask,' said Dee. 'You note I do not ask—but I would swear, by all I have learned, that you are Scorpio.' 'With the sting in the tail?' Lymond said. 'You are probably right.

You are not being badgered; you are being invaded.

It is the dogma that is the drama -- not beautiful phrases, nor comforting sentiments, nor vague aspirations to loving-kindness and uplift, nor the promise of something nice after death -- but the terrifying assertion that the same God who made the world lived in the world and passed through the grave and gate of death. Show that to the heathen, and they may not believe it; but at least they may realize that here is something that a man might be glad to believe.

No," said Harriet, who had been exercising

I wonder who this ship belongs to anyway, said Arthur. Me, said Zaphod. No. Who it really belongs to. Really me, insisted Zaphod. Look, property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine, okay?

That's right," shouted Vroomfondel, "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

We demand admission!

First we have to call it something which says it's our, not yours, then we set about finding some way of proving it's not what you said it is, but something we say it is.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Put that in your mustache and smoke it.

In the words of a best seller, 'You've nothing on me.

One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.

One can't argue with a point of view.

As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks' - as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists! ' - as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles' - so did Miss Williams say 'Men!' From her spinster's, governess's life, there rose up a blast of fierce feminism. Nobody hearing her speak could doubt that to Miss Williams Men were the Enemy!

Put that in your moustache and smoke it.

Do I understand you to assert that women are not subject to homicidal mania?

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

When my husband and I are getting into a taxi, I always stop the taxi and say where I want to go. My husband jumps in the car and says, 'This is where we are going.' That's the same when men and women approach wanting to become a candidate.

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.