Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Kirsten Gillibrand

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Mark Haddon

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mark Twain

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

Nicholas Negroponte

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Nathan Lane

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Naomi Campbell

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Mithun Chakraborty

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

Mitt Romney

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

Oscar Wilde

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

Paul Reubens

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

Padmasree Warrior

I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

Learned Hand

It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.

Lauren Oliver

No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.

Pablo Picasso

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Paul Merton

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

Margaret Atwood

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Margaret Beckett

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

Paul Watson

The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.

Paul Watson

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

Mary Pope Osborne

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

Martina Navratilova

Lady' is an opinion; 'woman' is a fact.

Pierre Corneille

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

Talcott Parsons

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Saul Kripke

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

Kami Garcia

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

Paul Davies

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.