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Quotes About Fact

Fact remains—launch determines orbit, and Torres got a launch in life that put him low and in decay from the start. You just give it time and watch the sky.
~ Richard K. Morgan
The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.
~ Julian Barnes
Res ipsa loquitur.
~ Julie Smith
while I pretended to submit reluctantly to the forceful persuasions of the mask, I was covering up to myself the fact that the mask's wish was my own.
~ K?b? Abe
The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.
~ Karen Horney
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
~ Franz Kafka
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
~ George Santayana
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible
~ Mark Twain
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
~ Hillary Clinton
It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.
~ John McCain
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
~ W. H. Auden
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
~ Angela Carter, Wise Children
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.
~ Theodore Parker
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
~ Jean-Jacques Annaud
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
~ Mary Oliver
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
~ Herbert Spencer
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
what is not true does not exist in this moment.
~ Bert McCoy
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
~ Ayn Rand