Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

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

The only good spot today was factory orders.

David Nicholls

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

When times are tough, your matching contributions are going to go down. It's a factor of profitability.

Richard Blumenthal

The plain stark fact is uninsured trucks are more likely to have safety problems,

P. J. O'Rourke

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

there are times when even great work is not enough to overcome other factors that destabilize a relationship.

Keith Carradine

There are people who said he killed over a hundred men. Historical fact doesn't corroborate one hundred men.

Justin Timberlake

I think I have to laugh about the fact that I grew up in public. All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Baruch Spinoza

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Barbara Mertz

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

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.

Dennis Prager

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

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.