Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Fournier

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Stanley Kubrick

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

Stacy Schiff

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Stephen Chbosky

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Stephen Colbert

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?

Stephen Colbert

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

Stephen Colbert

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

William James

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

William James

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Will Cuppy

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Will Durant

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Sarah Palin

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Richard Dawkins

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

Rob Zombie

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Richard Avedon

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Thomas S. Monson

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

Thomas Sowell

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Thomas Sowell

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

Richard Ford

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Tupac Shakur

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Trey Gowdy

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Saul Bellow

Facts always are sensational.