Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norton Juster

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Norman Vincent Peale

Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Emile M. Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Eric Alterman

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

Henri Poincare

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.

Henri Poincare

Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Henry Rollins

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Helen Reddy

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Hilary Mantel

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Henry Hyde

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

Henry James

The fatal futility of Fact.

Henry Charles Carey

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Joe Torre

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Joan Didion

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Hanning Speke

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

Benito Mussolini

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

Elbert Hubbard

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Tom Daschle

a full investigation of the facts surrounding this situation be undertaken, the sooner the better.

They're still assessing the situation, gathering facts and everything else. It would be premature to say anything at this time.

James Gray

They stayed with the facts, and we're very pleased with it,

You slowly learn what's good and what's bad. I really started to stay away from using obscure facts that I thought other people would know. There are things you know that no one else in the world knows and you have to realize that.

Winston Churchill

You must look at the facts because they look at you

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.

Hayden Panettiere

Beauty is an opinion not a fact

Hans Kung

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

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.