Quotes About Fact

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

The fact is,' Mrs Hearst said, in relating the episode, 'you couldn't buy anything from Duveen! Everything was either in reserve for somebody else or he had promised it to his wife or for some reason he wasn't ready to sell it yet.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one. A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous: who knows what the chances are out there, of survival, yours? I will say you, you, like an old love song.

What is believed in society, is not always the equivalent of what is true;

But to note is not to disparage. All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

When is a legend legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and discussed must a fact be for it to be relegated to the category Fairy-tale? And why do certain facts remain incontrovertible while others lose their validity to assume a shabby, unstable character?

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.

fancy themselves 'deprived' of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications. A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.

Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with all of you. It must have been truly frightening at least one week out of every month. (Valerius) Was that a joke? (Tabitha) Merely a frightening statement of fact. (Valerius)

Anything to piss you off, Brother. Why else? (Arik) Oh, that's easy enough to do. Basically the fact that you breathe does that. (Solin) Love you, too. (Arik) Of course you do, like a plague on your privates. (Solin)

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

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

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.