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Quotes About Fact

People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.
~ Luke Scott
Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.
~ Jesse L. Greenstein
There's no certainty in this, Baruk. That seems a fact particularly galling to you humans.
~ Steven Erikson
If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
~ Steven Spielberg
No matter which part of our brains we use, there are two things we all have in common: Our need to travel successfully through the maze of life, And the fact that 90% of our brains are water.
~ Stilton Jarlsberg
In a way, he wanted to run, so that no-one would know that Owen was waiting there for him. Another, braver part of him welcomed the moment of surprise when this fact became obvious.
~ Storm Constantine
Later, just before she drifted off to sleep, Jess realized the ghastly fact that, just as she had assumed that Edouard smelt disgusting, Edouard's first impression of her would have been that she did. The only difference was that she really had . It was not the greatest start to their relationship.
~ Sue Limb
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
~ Noam Chomsky
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
~ R. D. Laing
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
~ Havelock Ellis
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
~ Alex Pareene
I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
~ Tammy Duckworth
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
~ Heinrich Schliemann
She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.
~ Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.
~ B.G. Bowers, Death and Life
We all heard about the fact that a field hospital was being set up in Central Park, and this news chilled us mightily. But we did not hear that it had been packed up a mere fifteen days later.
~ Naomi Wolf
Incontrovertible truth.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
~ Diane Sawyer
People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.
~ Fred Upton
Well it's true.
~ Thomas Hardy
But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
~ Thomas Huxley