#figures

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#authority #authority figures #children #figures #only

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. ↗

— Nancy Astor

#lonely #may #often #ones #picturesque

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. ↗

— John Wilson

#actually #figures #historical #i #important

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader. ↗

— Mary McDonnell

#deal #done #felt #figures #here

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#figures #i #itself #out #people

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. ↗

— Pat Boone

#caring #democrats #figures #humane #liberal

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now. ↗

— Lois Capps

#change #department #drilling #energy #figures

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#abuse #also #although #because #committed