Quotes About Assertion

Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.

I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.

May I offer you my protection?' 'Good heavens, no,' she was amused: 'I don't need protection. I'm an Englishwoman.

I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.' 'About right,' Bean replied.

Tú no eres una promesa. Tú eres una amenaza

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Well, at least she's asserting herself, and you don't have to worry about her having 'squelched girl syndrome,' " she said. Mary Clare ignored that.

Keep the dogs off me!

You want a burrito? I asked. Is that a question or a statement of the obvious? Neither. It's an order.

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life is this: Do not preemptively take no for an answer. Do not decide your request has been rejected before it officially has. As with so many other lessons that involve assertion, this one applies far more to women than men.

And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them.

I've never tried to assert my views unless they are self-evident, not reliant on an argument from me to prove or disprove them: Breast-cancer awareness and AIDS prevention are good. Illiteracy is bad. Historic preservation will allow future generations to understand what life used to be like and in so doing will help Americans chart a path forward. The issues and decisions that are more complex I have left to others, to those confident of their own rightness.

He wanted a feeling of importance; and as long as Mr. Parsons argued with him, he got his feeling of importance by loudly asserting his authority. But as soon as his importance was admitted and the argument stopped and he was permitted to expand his ego, he became a sympathetic and kindly human being.

Bat stood in the open door and said I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department, you heinous fucking mongoloid, and there is nothing I cannot do.

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas of equity, fairness, and process; its natural tone is one of assertion of prerogatives, a demand for reparations.

I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.

No is golden. No is the kind of power the good witch wields.

But English history has demonstrated well enough how the assertion of divine inspiration from above evokes the counterassertion of divine inspiration from below, and Charles I mounted the scaffold by virtue of divine inspiration from below.

Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!

Sadistic pleasure isn't just about the infliction of pain. It also has to do with the assertion of power—the lust to dominate, to reduce a victim to a state of total submission.

If Nana thinks you're trying to scam her, she'll tell you, and if she thinks you ruined her life by discontinuing Arnold's Thin bread, she'll let you know that, too. I guess when you spend eighty-seven years swallowing other people's bullshit, there comes a time when you gotta spit some back.