Reasserted Quotes

#1. as the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow hundreds of French words (literary, intellectual, and cultural) before it could become the language of literature.

Richard A. LaFleur

#2. The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity, security and threats will change fundamentally. The depth of the attack on liberty will be felt painfully.

Ashraf Ghani

#3. In broad strokes, punk happened after arena rock like Jimmy Carter happened after Watergate: there was enough revulsion to momentarily contemplate an alternative, but then the underlying conservative dynamic reasserted itself.

Eric Weisbard

#4. Artemisia maintained a reserved silence for as long as she could, but by the time they entered the tranquillity of the park her amicability had reasserted itself. Besides, she concluded that there was no point in ignoring a person when they were so obtuse as to not realise they were being ignored.

D.G. Rampton

#5. I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

John Knowles

#6. I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

Ruth Ann Minner

#7. You can't allow other people to define your purpose or your destiny.

Marilyn Mosby

#8. Earthworms are far more valuable than people.

Paul Watson

#9. While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

Chris Benz

#10. If you're not proud of what you do, you're not done.

Frank Sonnenberg

#11. The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded,

Paul Saffo