I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Conservation is not a desperate, defensive effort. It is instead joyous and life-affirming." - from Zen Birding
One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
