Top 14 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. 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
#3. 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
#5. People often found themselves assenting to inanimate objects in the Moonlite All-Nite.
Joseph Fink
#6. 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
#7. Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
Georges Bataille
#8. 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
#9. Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
Thomas Aquinas
#10. [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
#12. It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.
Dianne Feinstein
#13. It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
Epictetus
#14. 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
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