Quotes About Assertion

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

I always think there's some value in saying no with a smile.

In Italy, it is not Beppe Grillo's complaints about Italy's la casta that should lead one to worry about him as a populist but his assertion that his movement wants (and deserves) nothing less than 100 percent of the seats in parliament, because all other contenders are supposedly corrupt and immoral.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.

I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions.

Juuri tällä hetkellä hän halusi tapella kenen kanssa tahansa, vain tapella ja huutaa ja olla vakuuttunut siitä, että kaikki muut olivat väärässä ja että hänen oli annettava niille selkään.

I think you'd better leave." Lockhart stiffened. "I do not believe it is your place to request my departure." Shaking his head, William pushed back his chair. "I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you to go.

Girl3 "You don't have to be a jerk" SlingBlade "Quite the contrary, my sloppy penile scholar.Order me another drink and be quick about it.

It was NINETY-SIXTY-FIVE-NINETY PERSON ME!" Cliff objected.

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

To be rejected—which I suppose is one of the easiest ways of making your mark, you have to come right out with something they see as directly and forcefully opposed to what they think they believe in. To be accepted you have to be seen and heard to appear to stand for what they think they believe in. To be neither one thing nor the other is probably unforgivable. But

Do you know what I can do to you? Spoken by an enraged policeman in Mexico, that statement seizes your attention, and so does "Puedo hacer lo que quiero"—I can do what I want.

men love to explain things, and they have opinions on everything.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara, she complained. They're sitting one them. You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear. Won't that make them angry? Are you afraid of a chicken?