Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Terence McKenna

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

Terence McKenna

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

Randall Munroe

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Shelby Foote

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

Seth

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Leonard Nimoy

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Vannevar Bush

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Stephen Leacock

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

Stanley Kubrick

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

Stacy Schiff

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Thomas A. Edison

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

Simon Callow

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

Sharon Gless

I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have,

Natalie Portman

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

Talcott Parsons

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Talcott Parsons

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Talcott Parsons

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Talcott Parsons

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Talcott Parsons

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Talib Kweli

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Suzan-Lori Parks

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

Tony Randall

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University

Tony Abbott

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Steven Soderbergh

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Raymond Cruz

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

Tom Tancredo

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.