Factor Quotes
708 quotes by 615 authors
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Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
— Jim Butcher
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Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course, they’d been referring…
— Derek Landy
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But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted…
— Michel Foucault
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I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
— Jasper Fforde
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Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency…
— Mary Roach
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What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be…
— Bell Hooks
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When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another -…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
— Jeffrey Archer
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love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed…
— Nora Roberts
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The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the…
— Oswald Chambers
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Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within…
— Daniel Quinn
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Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be…
— Jim Butcher
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If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish…
— William S. Burroughs
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Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did…
— Ann Brashares
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A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.
— Sophie Kinsella
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving…
— Albert Einstein
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