Reasserting Quotes & Sayings

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned. — Billy Corgan

Smears don't have much staying power on their own because they deviate from the foundations of reality (what actually happened). They require constant energy from our opponents to keep going. The truth has a habit of reasserting itself. — Julian Assange

Coulda made something o' himself. But a luckless man. All his days a luckless man. The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic." The unintentional humour of her remark was like her natural appetite for life reasserting itself. Harkness couldn't stop smiling. It was as if Glasgow couldn't shut the wryness of its mouth even at the edge of the grave. — William McIlvanney

Disappear Here.
The syringe fills with blood.
You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.
Wonder if he's for sale.
People are afraid to merge. To merge. — Bret Easton Ellis

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people. — Peter Jennings

Callie was his. He'd made mistakes. Mistakes that had cost them both more than he could ever imagine. But she was his, and he had every intention of reasserting his claim on her. — Maya Banks

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. — Shirley Williams

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.' — Ali Smith

The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands. — Anthony Doerr

Venting your primal self in an emotional moment can be more than your socially constructed self can handle after the fact," Alex says, her eyes gliding over me. "Look at you. Your hands are shaking. Your voice is weak. And your conscience is reasserting itself. — Mindy McGinnis

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. — Chogyam Trungpa

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. — Helen Keller

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you. — Dirk Nowitzki

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs. — Vivian Gornick

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time. — Antony Gormley

While the individual contributions provide the "building block" of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting. — Pearl Zhu

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna. — Henri De Mondeville