Facts Quotes

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.

Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.