Quotes about fact
facts assuming assumption
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction. Henry David Thoreau
facts essentials repetition
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. Jeffrey Eugenides
facts stories prisoner
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. Jim Bishop
facts world intense
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. Jacques Yves Cousteau
facts mere
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. Fulton J. Sheen
facts tradition prominent
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. Hosea Ballou
facts twenties advantage
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. Hannah Arendt
facts stubborn abandoned
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. James Bryant Conant
facts film realistic
I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films. Jai Courtney
facts fit accepting
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. James G. Frazer
facts emotion make-sense
Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't. J. A. Jance
facts literature hebrew
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. Isaac Bashevis Singer
facts obsolete stale
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
facts spending can-do
Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald. Jennifer Coolidge
facts fantasy replacements
Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact. Gifford Pinchot
facts ugly facts-of-life
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. Harper Lee
facts comfort chance
The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances. Halle Berry
facts irishmen
I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman Ian Paisley
facts responsible cases
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. Howard Nemerov
facts
I am not pro-Bush or anti-Bush. I am pro-facts. Ron Suskind
facts found helpful rather study
I don't think the study found anything particularly revealing. But I think it's always helpful to have more facts rather than just opinions.
facts microsoft stand
I don't think the facts are in dispute, ... Microsoft is going to make a stand on the law, saying, 'Yeah, we do all that stuff. So what?'
fact negative ordeal
He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this whole ordeal is inspiring.
facts prove
However, facts prove that Koizumi went back on his words,
facto post
How much of this is post facto rationalization?
facts government report watch
I don't make jokes. I just watch government and report the facts. Will Rogers
fact friday good playing rehab sleeping table
I don't like the fact that someone is in there playing dominoes with their friends while we're out there practicing. I didn't like the fact that they're in there sleeping on the rehab table while we're out there practicing, and then they just come out Friday because they think they're that good and they can come out and play. Derek Smith
factors hear issues key somebody tonight
If Giuliani's in, he's in. If somebody else is in, he's in. But the key factors are the issues she's been prosecuting, and that's what you're going to hear tonight and that's what you're going to hear between now and November.
fact flawed public talk talking
I can talk to staff. The fact of not talking to the public is ludicrous. This is flawed from the beginning.
facts government judgment rushes states united until
I don't think that the United States government rushes to judgment until all the facts are in. Kofi Annan
fact games joy lost watching welcome
I don't take joy in anything else. The fact they have lost two games in a row. ... Welcome to the NBA. I'm really concentrating on our guys, our team. I'm not watching the standings much right now. Pat Riley
fact grateful living love
I do this because I love it, and at the end of the day, the fact that I can make a living at all doing this, I'm grateful for. David Sanborn
factor favor pattern saving
a saving factor was that there was no nationwide pattern to favor any one party. Jimmy Carter