Assert Quotes

257 quotes by 221 authors

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. — Agatha Christie
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) — Malcolm Gladwell
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they… — Philip Roth
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own. — Lawrence Hill
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,… — Milan Kundera
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers,… — Jules Verne
Aw, no. Youâ€™re taking us to that vegetarian place, arenâ€™t you? Itâ€™s a coffee place. You canâ€™t just automatically classify anything that isnâ€™t a steak… — Kevin Hearne
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyoneâ€™s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her… — Vasily Grossman
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way… — Laini Taylor
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the… — John Green
Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a… — Lauren Oliver
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has… — George Eliot
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. — Aleister Crowley
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a… — Aristotle
Take away someoneâ€™s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someoneâ€™s aggression and you take… — Veronica Roth
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down. — Michael Bloomberg

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