Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ravi Zacharias

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Slavoj Zizek

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

Sloane Crosley

There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Sinclair Lewis

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Sinclair Lewis

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Snoop Dogg

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.

Socrates

Go wherever the facts lead.

Jodi Picoult

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

John Grierson

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

John Green

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

Patti Smith

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I don't think the study found anything particularly revealing. But I think it's always helpful to have more facts rather than just opinions.

I don't think the facts are in dispute, ... Microsoft is going to make a stand on the law, saying, 'Yeah, we do all that stuff. So what?'

However, facts prove that Koizumi went back on his words,

Stephen Colbert

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

I mean, is it journalism? Is it just opinion? Are we putting facts out there? Are we trying to uncover stories? And so, the issue comes up, what is the liability?

Adam Leipzig

If you're going to state facts in a National Geographic film, ... they had better be right.

It's disappointing to lose to an in-state school. But that's the facts of life right now. We had some guys who just didn't show up. When we have guys who don't show up, we're going to struggle.

James Marsh

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

I just think there was a whole confluence of facts that lead to our momentum building.

David F. Houston

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

David Einhorn

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Baldacci

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Frederick William Faber

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Freeman Dyson

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

George H. W. Bush

I'll wait to see all the facts before I reach any conclusions about blame, but right now, we mourn for the loss of the life, two lives.

I have to live with the facts as they are, rather than as I wish they would be or think they might be in the future.

Jim Oberweis

I didn't know the facts of the case. I didn't know as much about George Ryan's history as I do today. I wish I had known more.

Guy Ritchie

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

David Foster Wallace

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

Gina McKee

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.