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[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public? -- Phil Donahue
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. -- Patty Griffin
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. -- Johannes Rau
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. -- Anthony Burgess
We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world. -- Armstrong Williams
We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government. -- Meir Soloveichik
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
Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. -- Willis Polk
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
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
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. -- Daniel Burnham
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
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
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
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
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. -- Eric S. Raymond
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. -- Orhan Pamuk
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
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role. -- Andrew Luck
Reality has a way of asserting itself. -- Barack Obama
There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred. -- CeCe McDonald
The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love. -- Hozier
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? -- Edward Gibbon
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. -- bell hooks
A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself. -- Nina Garcia
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
what might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ... -- Wendy Kaminer
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying. -- A.S.A. Harrison
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying." -- A.S.A. Harrison
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot? -- Martha Rosler
When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else. -- A. Nicholas Groth
Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick? -- Eckhart Tolle
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me -- Gabriel Marcel
In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.' -- Laurence Silberman
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. -- Arthur Koestler
I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so. -- Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. -- Joseph Conrad
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched. -- Samuel Johnson
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. -- Eli Siegel
I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law. -- Barack Obama
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere. -- Mary Robinson

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