Assenting To Quotes

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

Georges Bataille

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

Joseph Fink

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

Georges Bataille

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

Thomas Aquinas

#5. [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

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

Epictetus

#7. Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator as it grows fat and round. And then the book is born.

Emily Murdoch

#9. 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

#10. Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

Barbara Park

#11. Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.

MacDonald Harris

#14. Envy aims very high.

Ovid

#15. What's the point of yelling at the sky, it's not fair, it's not fair? It doesn't change anything.

Karina Halle

#16. 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