Quotes About Assertion

A message you abhor has to be trumped with a more powerful one.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I have been accused of never saying no.

Be your own advocate.

I do think that, as an advocate for myself on set, I'm very direct.

There's nothing wrong with advocating for your own company.

Being professional makes it easier for me to say no, be honest, and not feel bad about it. However, that doesn't mean that you stay aloof.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself, be different from the same class when chisel and mallet have been laid aside, and it has actually become what it had so long been struggling to be.

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

Kublai went on as if he had not spoken. "Before you all, in the lands of my enemies, I declare myself great khan of the nation, of the khanates under my brothers, Hulegu and Arik-Boke, of the Chagatai khanate and all others. I declare myself great khan of the Chin lands and the Sung. I have spoken and my word is iron!

I am not going to rape you, Mrs. Blackburn," he said, toweling off his face, as if accusations of rape were a daily and tiresome occurence. (Kit)

Please let me go now," she said in a soft voice. "I can be of no further use to you." "Suppose I want to keep you as my own?" She pushed his hand away and sat up. "I am serious, Raven." "Perhaps I am too.

The idiot actually leaned in. "I said, do you know who the fuck I am?" Henry peered at him and actually looked concerned. "Do you not know who you are?

Whenever anyone argues with you about something, just tell them it is foretold—usually works.

I'm wolf." So shove that down your throat and choke on it.

Perhaps you should bite me", Bobby Pendragon.

I feel a strong victory over Gilbert Melendez makes a definite statement.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

If you don't send me away from Stony Cross by tomorrow morning, I'll take it as a personal invitation to your bed.

You need something more nourishing than the contents of that glass, Mr. Shaw." His hard gaze met hers. "I know what I need, you presumptuous wench. Now leave, or you're going to get a big eyeful of Gideon Shaw.

You know what that's like, don't you, Jon? Having a hunger? Relentlessly pursuing, taking what you want, what should be yours?