Assenting Quotes

#1. Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Georges Bataille

#3. People often found themselves assenting to inanimate objects in the Moonlite All-Nite.

Joseph Fink

#4. Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

Georges Bataille

#5. Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. [The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.

James Madison

#7. It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

Epictetus

#8. Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

John Redmond

#9. I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.

John Tavener

#10. This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

James Herriot

#11. I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Billy Ray Cyrus

#12. I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

Emilia Clarke

#13. The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

William Shakespeare

#14. It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

Dianne Feinstein