Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.

Mark Spitz

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Marilyn Ferguson

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

Ravi Zacharias

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Slavoj Zizek

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

Sloane Crosley

There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Sinclair Lewis

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Sinclair Lewis

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Snoop Dogg

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.

Socrates

Go wherever the facts lead.

Michael Moorcock

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

Michael Moore

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I know I’m Charonte and we defer to our females, but you have to respect the fact that I’m Charonte and we protect our females to the end. You be my female. I be protecting. (Xedrix)

Margaret Sanger

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Michael Lewis

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Michael Faraday

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

Michael Bloomberg

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Michael Azerrad

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

Ravi Zacharias

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Eric Hoffer

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

Eric Hoffer

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

James Beard

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

James Allen

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Lee Child

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

John Updike

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

James Jeans

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

James Hansen

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

Libba Bray

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Friedrich Engels

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Without a theory the facts are silent.