Assents Quotes & Sayings

There was just a beautiful, unearthly silence. He thought of the wood and the bluebells, the owl and the fox, a Hornby train trundling around his bedroom floor, the smell of a cake baking in the oven. The skylark ascending on his thread of song. F-Fox — Kate Atkinson

Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future. — Dr. An Wang

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened. — Nikki Giovanni

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must. — Ambrose Bierce

The Master said, 'Can men refuse to assent to the words of strict admonition? But it is reforming the conduct because of them which is valuable. Can men refuse to be pleased with words of gentle advice? But it is unfolding their aim which is valuable. If a man be pleased with these words, but does not unfold their aim, and assents to those, but does not reform his conduct, I can really do nothing with him. — Confucius

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte. — Arthur Helps

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. The attention of the younger ones was then no longer to be gained by him. Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them. — Jane Austen

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way. — Andrew Peterson

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. — Mahatma Gandhi

When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true. — Epictetus

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don't want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight. — Agatha Christie