Explicit Bias Quotes & Sayings

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university. — Elise Andrew

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it. — Sue Miller

And in the Highlands finding the prize less rewarding than the chase, growing into manhood on a copper crown throne, wrestling with the mundane from plague to famine, building an economy like a swordsman builds muscle, recruiting, training, and for what? To have some preordained emperor trample it beneath his heel on his march to the Gilden Gate. I — Mark Lawrence

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America. — August Wilson

Photograph speaks every language; wisdom speaks every language; goodness speaks every language; love speaks every language! Always try to do the things that speak every language so that all will understand you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dad always said this town could wreck a person, it's what happens when you're playing a rigged game. I convinced myself winning meant getting out.
But in what world do you get to leave the ring and declare victory? This is where I belong, in the fight. It's who I am.
I've rolled around in the mud for so long, wash me clean and I don't recognize myself. So how about I just accept the mud and the tendency I have to find myself rolling in it. My name is Veronica and I'm an addict. Hello Veronica. — Rob Thomas

You don't usually work Mondays, do you? What about Tuesday?
I grinned. She knew I didn't work on Monday. That meant she was aware of my schedule. Nice. We were both creepers. — Helena Hunting

I think business at all costs is just wrong. I think there are certain things that you just don't do, and that acting with integrity and decency in business to me is just a given. I simply don't compromise on those things. — Jessica Livingston

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama. — Valerie Jarrett

He had seemed fierce and noble but in the end he was as disappointing as everyone else. — Kate Atkinson

Of course, I do not believe that there is such a thing as a 'value-free' science, much less a value-free 'social science.' Hence, I do not urge anything so naive as a value-free observer or observation; on the contrary, what I urge is that the observer's aims and values be as clear and explicit as possible. — Thomas Szasz

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish. — Martin Buber