Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Halle Berry

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

Ian Paisley

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Howard Nemerov

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Hosea Ballou

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Hannah Arendt

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Frederick William Faber

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Freeman Dyson

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

Geoffrey Rush

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Gary Numan

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

Frank Rich

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

George Orwell

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Felix Frankfurter

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

Farley Mowat

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

Farley Mowat

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

Eugene McCarthy

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Francis Parker Yockey

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

Francis Crick

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

Francis Chan

The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.

Andy Weir

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.

James Marsh

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

Henry Mayhew

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

Helen Keller

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

Catharine MacKinnon

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Cat Stevens

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

George Eliot

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

It's a quite reasonable interpretation given the facts as presented,

It selectively includes only those factual assertions needed to support those conclusions and ignores other facts that would undermine those conclusions.

Chris Scelfo

It's a tribute to all the parents. The kids also remained strong to the program. We never lied to them. Facts are facts. We were honest about our situation.

It's disappointing to lose to an in-state school. But that's the facts of life right now. We had some guys who just didn't show up. When we have guys who don't show up, we're going to struggle.

Jeffrey Toobin

Benedict showed Skakel lied about facts and placed himself in places that were incriminating ... I think that's what turned the tide.

Janet Flanner

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.