Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Aquinas

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

Terry Pratchett

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Shelby Foote

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

Seth

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Leonard Nimoy

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Peter Kreeft

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Pema Chodron

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Peter Coyote

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

James Beard

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

James Allen

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

Mallory Ortberg

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

Nandan Nilekani

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

Nancy Pelosi

My statements are just a statement of fact.

Margaret Wertheim

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Marcel Proust

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Jose Saramago

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

You could see it in her eyes, how much kill factor she has in her. Some of the shots she hit were outstanding.

Jane Green

The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

The key is the fact that oil prices have skyrocketed,

The key factor weighing on the market is a rebound in stocks,

The key factor all along, for NASCAR and us, was sustainability.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Lee Child

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

John Updike

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

James Jeans

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.