Facts Quotes

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.