Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Agatha Christie

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Abraham Flexner

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

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

Javier Solana

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

Danielle Steel

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

Clifford Geertz

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

Colin Meloy

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

Colin Quinn

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

John Hoeven

We wanted to get people focused on the facts and the science and CEQ was helpful in working through that,

We laid out the facts to the parents. We thought it was important they know.

The real story here is what a tragedy this is for Jason's family. The autopsy is incomplete, period, and there is no autopsy report being withheld. The facts are that the family is anxiously awaiting the autopsy and have not made any specific request that the autopsy results not be released.

Robert Green Ingersoll

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

Robert Morgan

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Henry A. Kissinger

We will go where the facts lead us,

David F. Houston

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

David Einhorn

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Baldacci

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Cleveland Amory

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Meryl Streep

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

Meryl Streep

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Hu Jintao

Facts have proved that China's development will not stand in the way of anyone, nor will it pose any threat to anyone. Instead, it will only do good to peace, stability and prosperity in the world.

Aldous Huxley

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

Dan Castellaneta

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.

Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory

We have the public support. We have the facts on our side.

Ludwig von Mises

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation.

We must know that thewitness is telling the truth. Give us transparency. Give us the facts.

Lincoln Chafee

We really need cold, hard facts and honesty, ... The situation is tough over there.

Sidney Jones

We must wait for more facts before we can make that conclusion.