Facts Quotes

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

This is the great fact: strength is life.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.