Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aidan Chambers

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

Aidan Chambers

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

Bliss Carman

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bill Plympton

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Edmond Rostand

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

Short-term rate expectations remain the single most important factor for dollar/yen,

Jennifer Coolidge

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

Robert Zoellick

Since the day started with the fact that I had a hard time getting them in the room together, I think there was some progress by getting them to listen to my ... message and listen to the views of our international partners,

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing

Most people have planned this weekend in advance, they've planned all spring for it. So the fact that they're going to have to spend a little more is not going to derail their plans.

missed the fact that this passenger was a positive match.

Momentum is really big, a really big factor with a youthful squad. It's nice when they can keep it going.

Much of the fall in prices has been on the fact that some of the supplies to the U.S. are products and not crude.

Julie Burchill

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Elbert Hubbard

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Aristotle

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Aristotle

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

William Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

The only good spot today was factory orders.

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us a finished product because we're not. But I like the steps we're taking. I like the fact that players are having some fun doing it.

Colum McCann

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

Louie's value is the fact he can help a pitching staff.

Lee's not a factor for anything but shipping interests,

Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening.

Several factors should prevent an outright decline, as spending per unit will likely remain strong.

John Prescott

So if you look at the money we've given, we've actually still given more in fact in housing to the north than they had the years before.

Ticha Penicheiro

She was a factor in why we won this game.

She was a big factor in his success.

She will tell you what should and should not be done. Her fans like the fact that she's honest and straightforward.

Elizabeth Kostova

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

Arthur Eddington

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.