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Some are trying to assert some control over their lives.

- Gary Friedman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

- John Howard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man

- Robert D. Owens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.

- Albert Speer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

- Dennis Potter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Although the US government continues to assert its condemnation of torture and ill-treatment, these statements contradict what is happening in practice.

- Curt Goering Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

- Hermann Hesse Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

- Pat Robertson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

- Maimonides Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

- Gustav Mahler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

- Andrew C. Bradley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The lifting of the stay in Delaware means that we are for the first time in several years free to assert newer patents against Micron and to challenge newer products.

- John Danforth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

has been unwilling to assert strong leadership.

- Hamid Karzai Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Anyone who might assert that our numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken.

- John Brennan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

THOSE who deny God, the Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all, how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it We have to feel the great marvel of energy, manipulating both, the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence, except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos

- Sathya Baba Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I wasn't really looking to attack or to assert myself. I think we had a lot of things we could take advantage of, and we did that. We had them right where we wanted them, just a couple of bounces didn't go our way.

- Kobe Bryant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

- Aldous Huxley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

- Jeanne Moreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

- John Charles Polanyi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We're at the end of the quarter and people are consolidating a little bit. April could look better if we can see some tech names assert leadership.

- Ned Riley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They lost Game7 of the conference finals when Devils winger Jeff Friesen scored with 214 to play, but by then it was just as easy to say that Ottawa had beaten itself. Despite having home ice advantage in all three of their playoff series, the Senators didn't win the first two games at home in any series. Then they committed the unpardonable act of falling behind three games to one to New Jersey. For Ottawa to be a juggernaut this season, it must assert itself. This team, ... needs more of a killer instinct.

- John Muckler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We want to assert our right over (east) Jerusalem through the elections because it is part of the (future) Palestinian state.

- Mahmoud Abbas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

- Patrick J. Kennedy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is where it all began, ... This is where people first came together and said, 'We have to stand up and assert our independence, our uniqueness, our freedom and our dignity.'

- Kofi Annan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes