Quotes of: Asserting Keyword

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Tom G. Palmer

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Barbara Kellerman

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

Jane Pauley

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

Julian Pencilliah

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Jonathan Raban

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

James Dobson

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

Elliott Abrams

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Louise J. Kaplan

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

Kathryn Schulz

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

Krist Novoselic

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

William Feather

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

Mark Rothko

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

Michael Specter

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

Kirk Cameron

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Howard

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Walter Pater

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton