Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Susan B. Anthony

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Brigham Young

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Brian Tracy

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Charles Spurgeon

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Charles Olson

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

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.

Daniel Handler

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

Dan Ariely

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

Clarice Lispector

Facts and particulars annoy me,

Elizabeth Strout

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

Benjamin Graham

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.

Bruce Sterling

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

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

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.

Gina McKee

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

Ken Cohen

There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can.

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.

William Williams

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

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.

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

Javier Solana

We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.

Those were stormy times. She always wanted to get all the facts - get to the truth - before she made up her mind.

Alexander Smith

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

Ani Difranco

But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem