Facts Quotes

Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.

So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.

The facts are facts and records are records.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

In fact, it's in my interest to love digital recording, and I just spent a ton on a new digital recording system, so I speak from a place of heavy investment in both sides.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.