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Quotes About Fact

I find I've been made sad by Minuteman dread. They take a fact and make the worst of it. This beautiful world, all this magnificence, seems to inspire in them only a fear that the beautiful world will be taken away.
~ George Saunders
'Frankenstein' is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors closer to reality.
~ Jed Mercurio
Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
~ Lauren Groff
The pickets were just a fact of life. And the fact that people hated us from the time I was tiny, the fact that we were hated, I was taught, was a cause for great rejoicing.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.
~ Henry Petroski
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
~ Gary Weiss
WANT YOU TO KNOW how safe and secure you are in My Presence. That is a fact, totally independent of your feelings.
~ Sarah Young
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
~ Saul Alinsky
One is a world of cold fact and reality; the other is a world of magic and adventure.
~ Scarlett Thomas
It's foreign to us, and our faith in hierarchies, but science bears out emergent intelligence as fact.
~ Scott Berkun
Memory is better than fact anyway, because it's created by feelings.
~ Scott Ryan
For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.
~ Tim Buck
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
~ Willa Cather
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
~ Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
~ Mark Twain
How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
~ Mark Twain
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~ Mark Twain
If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.
~ Mark Twain
Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
~ Mark Twain
They know, too, that while in history-building a fact is better than a presumption, it doesn't take a presumption long to bloom into a fact when THEY have the handling of it.
~ Mark Twain
What further does it tell us? This: that the assassin was left-handed. How do I know this? I should not be able to explain to you, gentlemen, how I know it, the signs being so subtle that only long experience and deep study can enable one to detect them. But the signs are here, and they are reinforced by a fact which you must have often noticed in the great detective narratives—that all assassins are left-handed. By
~ Mark Twain
It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~ Mark Twain
A fact regarding Max Vandenburg He would search the faces on Munich street for a book-thieving girl.
~ Markus Zusak