Quotes About Assertion

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

Standing up for yourself. That's the thing martial artists aren't used to. You've got to really stick up for yourself and be a tough businessman when it's time for negotiations.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

I forbid you to go." "I am not yours to forbid. Comfort your pride with your conquest!

The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

There." She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. "The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I'm not your damn sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear.

Look,I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this- she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume of dust rose up -thing for the night. I don't take in lodgers. And you'd probably kick a sick dog if he got in your way, she added evenly.

Eve lifted a brow. She decided

I'm not moving in with you. Yes, you are.

bargain I can give you." "We'll take it." Connor spoke up, shifted

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

I irritate; therefore I am.

That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

Oh, to shout it so that all of you believe me at last, you cruel, smug people...

But reality soon asserted itself.

The most important distinction between aggression and assertion is its intent. During assertion, we move ourselves toward another; during aggression, we move ourselves against another.

Assertiveness is the positive form of aggressiveness.