Quotes About Assertion

I think it's funny when people assume that I have to put up with their insulting shit to my face. Rude awakening, table for one please.

The point at which God asserted his greatness to his chosen people was when he arranged the escape of the Jews from Egypt, where they were kept as slaves. One reading of the story of Exodus is that it was not so much about freeing the Israelites from slavery as about asserting God's greatness by establishing a people beholden to him and ensuring that they—and others—were in awe of his power. Under this interpretation, the Exodus story becomes a gigantic manipulation.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay. My name is Lemn Sissay.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.

Do come now, said he..., pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come.

Now I have done, cried Captain Wentworth. When once married people begin to attack me with,--`Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, `No, I shall not;' and then they say again, `Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people begin to attack me with—'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

a description. What Lucy had asserted to be true, therefore

I want what's mine. And you wife, are mine.

Bitch, this is a gun...

You have to step on people's feet and kick them in the back of the leg," Grandma said, "then they move away from you.

She was used to taking the world as it was, she'd never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it.

The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually unsustainable.

It's never occurred to me - and I don't know what right mixture of upbringing this was - that my opinion wasn't as important as the alpha males or that I shouldn't try or that I wasn't the funniest one in the room.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.

I laughed and discovered something that has served me well since: the more we threaten thought and language with silence, or simply seek to demote them in our lives from the ludicrous pedestal on which our culture and background have placed them, then the more fertile, in their need to justify and assert themselves, they become. Reflection is never more exciting than when reflecting on the damage reflection does, language never more seductive than when acknowledging its unreality.