Positive Assertion Quotes

#1. The odd truth about Alfred was that love, for him, was a matter not of approaching but of keeping away.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Enlightenment, if left unclouded by pathetic fancy, leads to a very special and bracing sort of nihilism - positivist, rationalist ... merciless.

David Bentley Hart

#5. You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in his writers' room and just pass gas freely. Me, I'm a lady. I'm dainty. I know to get up and leave the room and go to my office.

Wanda Sykes

#6. Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

Sam Barry

#7. The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Juan Enriquez

#8. Fact: A psychopath is born every 47 seconds.

Kent A. Kiehl

#9. A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

Curtis Jackson

#10. One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

Ben E. King

#11. Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

Pearl S. Buck

#12. We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

Adolf Hitler

#13. Was Apollo giving me relationship advice? This was officially the weirdest moment of my life,

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.

Timothy Keller

#15. My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.

Andrew Spano

#16. I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

Lupe Fiasco

#17. How many of us feel this strange mix of busyness and lifelessness?

Kevin DeYoung