Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martina Navratilova

Lady' is an opinion; 'woman' is a fact.

Pierre Corneille

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

Rabindranath Tagore

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

Pete Townshend

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Peter Lilley

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Joan Sutherland

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

George Lucas

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Joel Robuchon

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Joel Osteen

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

Lisa Kleypas

Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.

Leo Rosten

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Lawrence M. Krauss

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Lawrence Lessig

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection.

Joseph Campbell

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Karl Popper

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Paula Rego

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

Paula Rego

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Peter Kreeft

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Pema Chodron

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Peter Coyote

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Maggie Stiefvater

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

John McAfee

If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.

Joseph Murphy

All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

Leonard Cohen

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

Julie Garwood

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

Joshua Lederberg

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Karl Barth

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Julius Streicher

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Julius Streicher

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

Kanye West

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Kami Garcia

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.