Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Jeannette Walls

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Lincoln Chafee

We really need cold, hard facts and honesty, ... The situation is tough over there.

Etgar Keret

The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

Hayden Panettiere

Beauty is an opinion not a fact

Henry David Thoreau

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

James Bryant Conant

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Howard Coffin

Indeed, as a view of American military history it may be rivaled only by the vista from Little Round Top at Gettysburg,

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Jacques Maritain

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

Henry Adams

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Dolores Huerta

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Jean Craighead George

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Jay Pharoah

Im known for impressions and family stories.

Jay McInerney

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

Jay Leno

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

Jay Leno

This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.