Quotes About Assertion

Why do you keep calling me that?" I said. It sounded more petulant than it should have, but I really didn't have a terribly strong position at the moment, unless you count the moral high ground. My

Now," Lynne said, turning back to the table with her lizard smile. "I apologize for interrupting you, Minerva. What were you saying?" She looked at Min as if to say, You have a chance to back down; take it. Min smiled back at her. Bite me, lady.

Beauty was power, and Bethie wanted her power back.

Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?

If you must argue, the best way to win is to start by being right.

Is your mom afraid something will happen to you?" "I," said Harriet, with absolute confidence, "am something that happens to other people.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions.

This would be entirely consistent with a reformation that was less about the assertion of faith and principle than about the redistribution of power and wealth.

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

Fitzhugh wasn't immune to the desire that's in most people to spray graffiti on the cold rock of the world and say "I was here and what I did counted for something.

No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this drama for the sake of your fiction. Oh, darling, the hell with your fiction.

If everybody else was going to say what was wrong, I wanted to be heard too.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

Plus/minus Positive/negative 1/0 I can/ I can't I will/ I won't You are/You aren't I said/I thought I said I will/I thought I can't I thought I can/I said You won't

Don't give me that, Charlie

The two young women standing nearby had apparently listened in. "Give it to me," one of them said. She wore a lot of foundation, and her eyebrows qualified as drawings.

Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.

Janet Jackson kicked off this curious phenomenon, Madonna continued it, Beyoncé is its apex. Here dancing is intended as a demonstration of the female will, a concrete articulation of its reach and possibilities. The lesson is quite clear. My body obeys me. My dancers obey me. Now you will obey me.

if often telling makes it true.