Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William James

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

Will Cuppy

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Sarah Palin

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Richard Ford

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Tupac Shakur

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Investors want to see the U.S. stock market's reaction to whatever the Federal Reserve says, which might set the tone for global high-techs for a while.

Eric Ballantine

The uncertainty on the filing is probably what the market is looking at.

Douglas Adams

But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

Randy Pausch

Develop a good filing system.

Scott Bauer

But this filing will give us the freedom to operate the office as we wish, such as taking limited deposits, until it makes strategic sense to open a full-service branch.

Steve Brown

The petitions were reviewed, and there were a number of defective signatures. But it looks like they filed just over the minimum. There was no point in filing objections.

Bruce Phillips

This whole project could unravel by the filing of this lawsuit.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Tom Rathbun

We welcome any independent review of what we do.

Blake Lively

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.