Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

Catharine MacKinnon

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Cat Stevens

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

George Eliot

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

James Bryant Conant

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

Jai Courtney

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

James G. Frazer

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

J. A. Jance

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

Jeremy Irons

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

George Saunders

I'm comfortable with anything after the fact.

Jeff Miller

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

Jim Harrison

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Jerry Spinelli

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Jim Bishop

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Fulton J. Sheen

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Chris Moneymaker

Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

Fran Lebowitz

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

Fran Lebowitz

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

George Washington

Facts may speak for themselves.

George Santayana

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

George Santayana

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Jerome Bruner

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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.

Jeannette Walls

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Geoffrey Rush

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Gary Numan

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.