Facts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
-- A. A. Gill -
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
-- A.J. Ayer -
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
-- A.J. Ayer -
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
-- A.M. Homes -
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
-- Aaron Copland -
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
-- Aaron Klug -
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
-- Abby Sunderland -
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
-- Abraham Flexner -
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
-- Adam Arkin -
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
-- Adam McKay -
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
-- Adam Savage -
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
-- Adoniram Judson -
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
-- Adrian Lyne -
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll -
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
-- Aidan Chambers -
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
-- Ajay Naidu -
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
-- Al Gore -
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
-- Al Gore -
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
-- Al Gore -
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
-- Al Pacino -
The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
-- Ala Bashir -
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
-- Alafair Burke -
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
-- Alain Badiou -
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
-- Alain Robert -
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
-- Alan Bennett -
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
-- Alan Hirsch -
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.
-- Alan Keyes -
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
-- Alan Lightman -
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
-- Alan Shepard -
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
-- Alan Turing -
I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
-- Alana Stewart -
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
-- Alana Stewart -
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
-- Albert Camus -
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
-- Albert Camus -
In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
-- Albert Camus -
What makes Facebook so great is the fact that you can make up absolutely random quotes and then attribute them to famous people.
-- Albert Einstein -
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
-- Albert Einstein -
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
-- Albert Einstein -
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
-- Albert Ellis -
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
-- Albert Schweitzer -
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
-- Alberto Fujimori -
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
-- Alberto Giacometti -
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
-- Aldous Huxley -
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
-- Alessandro Manzoni -
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
-- Alex Haley -
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
-- Alexander Smith -
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.
-- Alexander Stoddart -
If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.
-- Alexander Theroux -
It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.
-- Alexandra Robbins -
I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
-- Alexei Panshin -
However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.
-- Alexei Sayle -
For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.
-- Alexis Bledel -
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
-- Alfred Adler -
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.
-- Alfred Molina -
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.
-- Ali Shariati -
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.
-- Alice Miller -
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
-- Alice Miller -
The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
-- Alice Munro -
Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
-- Alice Walker -
men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.
-- Alistair Begg -
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
-- Alistair Cooke -
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.
-- Alistair Cooke -
Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
-- Alix Ohlin -
In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.
-- Allan Nairn
