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Quotes About Fact

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.
~ Rex Tillerson
When it first started, I loved the fact 'This Morning' was an adult version of Saturday morning television.
~ Phillip Schofield
Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.
~ Steve Young
The fact is I never intended to be a chef. After Oxford University I had this weird idea of running a nightclub.
~ Rick Stein
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
~ Marlene Dietrich
No authority is higher than reality.
~ Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
~ Peter Pace
Of India he (Sir John Strachey) had pronounced (and in reissues of "India: Its Administration and Progress" continually repeated) that nothing by that name existed. "This is the first and most essential fact about India that can be learned.
~ Peter Ward Fay
reader is asked, for the moment, to accept this as a reasonable statement of fact, that in a part of the world that had for centuries been civilised, and quite highly civilised, there gradually emerged a people, not very numerous, not very powerful, not very well organised, who had a totally new conception of what human life was for, and showed for the first time what the human mind was for.
~ Peter Watson
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
~ Phil Plait
Spin doctors in every era have known that perception is infinitely more potent than mere fact.
~ Philipp Blom
en substituant au fait la protestation contre le fait, ne s'efforce-t-on pas, le plus souvent avec succès, de se persuader qu'un groupe capable de protester contre son propre privilège n'est pas un groupe privilégié ?
~ Pierre Bourdieu
I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
~ Edgar Mitchell
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
~ Bo Gritz
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
~ Michael Hastings
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
~ William Hurt
I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.
~ Fahadh Faasil
A belief may be larger than a fact.
~ Vannevar Bush
It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere." So long as the resistance was informed by fact and executed with integrity, Jefferson believed, all would be well.
~ Jon Meacham
Fact is what we can see or discern; truth is the larger significance we extrapolate from those facts.
~ Jon Meacham
Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact. The family was the house's soul.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Perhaps he meant that there is no fact, however insignificant, that does not involve universal history and the infinite concatenation of cause and effect.
~ Jorge Luís Borges