Quotes of: Asserted Keyword

It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!

Heidi Reagan

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

Hermann von Helmholtz

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even...

Bertrand Russell

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Derek Bok

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

bell hooks

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Jane Eyre

Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship

The Sacred Key — Transcending Humanity

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Odd Apocalypse

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

The Plague

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Oscar Wilde

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Tom G. Palmer

When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated

Katie Renee Ward

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Miguel de Unamuno

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

Salmon P. Chase

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

Millicent Fawcett

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

Jennifer Grant