#assert

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cannot #country #defense #going #independence

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#assertive #canadian #cautious #critical #observant

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#assert #know #oneself #should

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

— Armstrong Williams

#cannot #our #problem #solve #terrorism

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#being #between #fine #fine line #line

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