Quotes About Assertion

Many stubborn errors of assertion and denial, he went on, are the result of some good minds in each generation having claimed to do the work of twenty or a hundred and claiming, at the same time, that they have put their finger on the "heart of the matter.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

my freedom. And So It Is!

Fuck me sideways." "Thanks, but you're just not my type." "You're sure." "I'm sure men are my type, but if I went for women, I'd do you.

I'm not your weakness. I'm your goddamn weapon.

jabbed a finger in the air at Martella. "Bump up

yourself on my behalf." "Oh really. Is that so?" She stalked forward

I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn't. Wrath and Beth

Before we kumbaya this shit, you're going to do something for me, right here and now." The

Getting up from her seat, she walked over to him and— Slap. As Beth followed through with her palm, the sharp cracking sound faded in the room and her beloved mate shut up. Staring at him calmly, she said, "And now that I have your attention and you're not ranting and raving like a lunatic, I'd appreciate your telling me where I can find whatever they sent us.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this principle to the morality of defending both convicted criminals and the lives of the unborn.

A noisy man is always in the right.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

He did not confuse compassion with passivity.