Assentation Quotes

#1. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

Doug Stanhope

#2. God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

Max Lucado

#3. If you don't make history, you just become history!

Sanjai Velayudhan

#4. The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank

Vasco Ronchi

#5. A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

Aleks Canard

#6. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.

Nayomi Munaweera

#7. Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Sandra Bullock

#8. When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

Jim Harrison

#9. The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Walter Gilbert

#10. I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

Gavin Rossdale

#11. Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

Elliott Abrams

#12. Just go to a bar, watch football - that's fun to me because I've not gotten to see anything because I've been travelling so much. Playing some shuffleboard and some pool and darts. I like kind of dive-y bars.

Miles Teller

#13. The being called God ... bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

Serinda Swan