Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are waiting for the investigation to run its course. It's through the investigation we will get the facts about where things can be improved.

We are waiting for Republic management to update us. Until we know the facts, it's hard to speculate. The most important thing is getting a swift appraisal of what happened, how it happened, and what it means.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

Frederick Jones

We are trying to interpret and ascertain the facts surrounding this case,

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of the contingency plan in its entirety.

It was very much Carol's style: Here are the facts. Let's get it done.

The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts

We will not rush to judgment until we have our own facts in order.

Ruben Aguilar

The federal government has done what was in its power to investigate and find the facts, identify those responsible and open the way for the application of justice.

Kirsten Gillibrand

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

Judith Butler

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

We had a good meeting and provided the PUD with a lot of facts and figures.

It was just a matter to get the jury to see all the facts.

Jim DeMint

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

Jenny Lawson

I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.

Gilbert Ryle

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

Henry David Thoreau

I would stand upon facts.

Jean Genet

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jennifer Coolidge

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Jim Bishop

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Fulton J. Sheen

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Jerome Bruner

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.