Asserting Quotations

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.

We've added some guys who are not only good players but good leaders. They lead by example. Ike Hilliard's helped us. He's come in here and given us great leadership. Brian Griese's asserting himself with the football team. Chris Hovan's done some great things. Anthony Becht is a leader on the team.

We're asserting they are in violation of the terms of their visas and that they have no legal basis to be in the U.S..

Yes, it absolutely suggests that. It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out.

Mike's doing a nice job. He's asserting himself offensively, and he's learning how to respond (in a positive manner) when things don't go well. That was a big problem a year ago. When things didn't go well, he'd get down (mentally) on himself. He's learning how to handle (adversity) this year.

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights

He is asserting his presence. He is keen to show that he is aware of what's going on in the world. He is well informed so he is not isolated or hiding in some crack underground.

What we're seeing today is a very long-term trend asserting itself - people abandoning the euro and buying the U.S. economic miracle, ... OPEC's decision is not helping the euro much today either

We did a really nice job in the second half asserting ourselves against a more physical team than we have. I was very happy with our inside game.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

Either Nick or her parents did everything for her, and just recently, (she) asked for her own checkbook for the first time. Jessica seems to be growing up and asserting her independence. Whether it's leaving her husband, buying a house it seems like she doesn't want others controlling her life. She wants to take charge.

Bin Laden himself feels more secure in coming out of his cave and asserting to the world that he's alive and still relevant.

Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.

So the history of Star Trek is one directed, guided and determined by the Star Trek fans, and here they are again, asserting themselves.

Now in falsely asserting I want to raise taxes, Al Gore is once again turning an honest discussion about a future no one can predict into a proposal I've never made,

This is another in a continuing legal backlash against the Boy Scouts for asserting and winning its constitutional rights in the United States Supreme Court.

I told the guys at halftime that this was a game of little spurts. When we came out of the locker room and made that run to start the third, I thought we were asserting ourselves. But give Lewisburg credit, they came right back, answered and re-took the lead.

That just wasn't Jim Haslam. He was always willing to offer an opinion but never forcing you to do something or asserting a given opinion. He knew where that line was and stayed on the right side of it.

Once she starts asserting dominance, males have to make a choice to submit to the new female or risk being attacked by the new female.

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.

The FDA is asserting power to ban this industry,

If martial law did not prevent people from asserting their rights, how much more this. People will always create ways to circumvent this kind of intolerance ... This will be challenged on all fronts.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.

I don't think that we could be any more forceful in asserting that the election did not meet international standards.

The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.