Quotes About Assertion

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

What I, Karsa Orlong, shall shape, you cannot imagine. No one can.

Used as he was to commanding attention, it did not rest well with him to be contradicted.

But it could also be willful and unrelenting, pushing memories to the forefront of her brain, like rude people cutting in line. And not just rude, but people who were noisy and smelly and daring you to challenge them.

If you want information from me, you'll explain why. If you're unwilling to do that, then you can just trot your arrogant carcass out of my office and quit wasting my time. I have work to do.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen.

Don't deny me what's mine, Brighton.

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She'd say 'no' before the question was even asked.

I find it curious that she hasn't been excommunicated. Are her small acts of rebellion a convenient outlet for Peters, a type of performance that satisfies the colonists' need to assert themselves, and that allows Peters to act with impunity on a larger scale?

I did not give you my permission, Madame, to treat me in this way. I am here to feed you, not to serve as your fodder. I demand more money for such services, Madame. You pay me only for my time. My story, Madame, is mine. I alone am qualified to tell it, to embelish, or to withhold.

If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.

A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true

Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. "There.

wonder Nettie hadn't told her to get out there

You think I'm a sissy? I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.

If you think I'm going to let you take over my life, you're wrong.

Cecelia Ahern asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.

If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not, he said, and I could tell he meant it.

Many of us are taught to be ladies and keep our opinions to ourselves. But you can be completely railroaded if you don't make your point known by giving your opinion and speaking up.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

I think it's really important for everybody out there to speak their minds, and not be complicit and let fear back you into this corner where you just let everything go by. It's a responsibility.

Senator Franken was a strong voice for Minnesota and I'm also a strong voice for Minnesota.