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Quotes About Fact

It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
~ Charles Dickens
There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact.
~ Charles Dickens
Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact. What is called Taste, is only another name for Fact.
~ Charles Dickens
The hard journalism that covers greed and violence and malevolence — we would almost expect the ink to glimmer red, as does the spilt blood of mankind — but there it is, always staring back at us in cold, fact-black.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.
~ Graham Hancock
This was the great truth of life, that fact and fiction were always merging, interchanging.
~ Graham Swift
And by that remarkable fact there hangs . . . a story. This ambiguity was not a historical accident; it was, in fact, the whole point of the American founding. An adequate history of Christianity and America ought to be built around the story of this ambiguity. And quite a story it is. We might call it the "cooperative founding" story, because Christianity and its spiritual enemies created America together.
~ Greg Forster
WTFact: The human small intestine can reach up to eight meters in length. Why do you want to know that? Because all knowledge is important, f*ck-face.
~ Gregory Bergman
For Trisha The truth's in myth not fact, a story fragment or an act that lasts and stands for all: how bees made honey in a skull.
~ Gregory Orr
El populismo es una continua tentación de la política latinoamericana, porque suele surgir de un hecho histórico también frecuente en nuestras sociedades: el de las modernizaciones inconclusas.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
~ H. L. Mencken
My opinion may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It's a Fact, "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts." We have our opinions, let's go with mine.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.
~ James Joyce
In the past, we could define an individual as that which lies within the skin, but it is a fact of physics that energy fields are unbounded. The
~ James L. Oschman
documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it
~ James Lee Burke
I wanted an endless summer with you. But then darkness always comes doesn't it? Just a fact of life, i guess
~ James Patterson
to hurt you, miss. That's the truth.
~ James Patterson
There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
~ Blair Underwood
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
~ Frances Wright
There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.
~ Robert M. Gates
Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
~ Allen West