Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruby Wax

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong, and if you are consistently wrong, it's even better. You're really one of them if you're really wrong all the time. Look at Jimmy Carter.

Ray Romano

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

Raul Castro

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

Ratan Tata

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.

Rick Perry

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

Rick Riordan

That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.

Rob Zombie

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William J. Brennan

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

Virginia Woolf

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

William James

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

William James

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Will Cuppy

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Will Durant

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Sarah Palin

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Yukio Mishima

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Zhuangzi

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

Zhuangzi

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

William Hazlitt

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Wendell Berry

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Walter Pater

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.