Bias Defensiveness Quotes

#1. You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.

Steven Erikson

#2. There's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.

Jon Jones

#3. I think my dad is this great, wonderful ... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

Vanessa Kerry

#4. I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

Richard Simmons

#5. At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

Nicki Minaj

#7. It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. - Elbert Hubbard

David Allen

#8. Shift often from openness to closure.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#9. Gabriel looked up at her from under thick eyelashes. Will you please grope me under the table, Kate mine?

Eloisa James

#10. The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

Thomas Mellon

#11. The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

H.W. Brands

#12. The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

Cassandra Clare

#13. At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

Ashwin Sanghi