Asserting Quotes

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Giacomo Casanova

Death, Lie, Doubt

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
Lev Grossman

Suffering, Year, Water

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.
Jeff Goodell

Bad, Human, Control

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
Armstrong Williams

Cannot, Problem, Terrorism

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Anthony Burgess

Mind, Afternoon, Habit

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.
Michael Mandelbaum

Power, Political, American

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
Johannes Rau

Interest, Copyright, Justified

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Henry Lawson

Eyes, Study, Become

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Character, Feelings, Moral

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.
Denis Kearney

Men, Live, Country

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Scott Turow

Worth, Books, Written

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?'
John Tuley

Knowledge, Important, Rather

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