Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pelosi

My statements are just a statement of fact.

Margaret Wertheim

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Marcel Proust

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Jose Saramago

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Joe Torre

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Joanne Harris

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Norton Juster

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Norman Vincent Peale

Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Emile M. Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Eric Alterman

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

Henri Poincare

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.

Henri Poincare

Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Henry Rollins

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Helen Reddy

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Hilary Mantel

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Henry Hyde

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

Henry James

The fatal futility of Fact.

Henry Charles Carey

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Napoleon Hill

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Napoleon Hill

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

Norman Mailer

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Octavia Butler

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

Mason Cooley

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

Michio Kaku

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

Mallory Ortberg

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.