Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Aleister Crowley

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Albert Einstein

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

Alfred Marshall

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Albert Einstein

The theory must not contradict empirical facts,

Albert Einstein

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

Fred Thompson

When there are factual disputes, it's better to have live witnesses.

Oliver Cromwell

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact

Gaspard Ulliel

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

Wayne Kramer

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Todd Bridges

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.

Alexander Smith

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need another rate-raising factor out of our control.

We were alarmed to find that the three worst shows ... are being marketed as family-friendly when in fact these shows are none other than wolves in sheep's clothing.

Tom Fitton

We don't know what these records will show, but it's time we get more of the facts on the table.

A. Whitney Brown

The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.

Rick Allen

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

Agatha Christie

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Agatha Christie

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Abraham Flexner

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Betty White

I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.

There are a whole lot of factors that need to be weighing on the mayor's mind.

There are a whole host of factors that you can practice against. But to be honest, it's not the same as living through it,

My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

Wendell Willkie

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Cynthia Nixon

The recognition factor is so much higher when I'm a redhead, so when I'm a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily.

Those were stormy times. She always wanted to get all the facts - get to the truth - before she made up her mind.

To use Macquarie's own words, I'd like to see factual information from Macquarie why these issues are lies, incorrect or misleading.

Jamal Crawford

We're not going to finish with the worst record. It matters from the simple fact that you never want to be regarded as the worst team in the league.

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.