Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

Chris Scelfo

It's a tribute to all the parents. The kids also remained strong to the program. We never lied to them. Facts are facts. We were honest about our situation.

There's a lot of misinformation out there. What we wanted to say is, let's at least get the facts and figures before we jump to any conclusions about what rules, if any, need to be changed.

The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts

It's a quite reasonable interpretation given the facts as presented,

Gary Hamel

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Gloria Gaynor

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

Fran Lebowitz

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

Fran Lebowitz

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

George Washington

Facts may speak for themselves.

George Santayana

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

George Santayana

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Emma Bonino

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

You slowly learn what's good and what's bad. I really started to stay away from using obscure facts that I thought other people would know. There are things you know that no one else in the world knows and you have to realize that.

Winston Churchill

You must look at the facts because they look at you

Helen Keller

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

Catharine MacKinnon

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Cat Stevens

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

George Eliot

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Judith Butler

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Steven Levy

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Robert Burns

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

Robert Browning

But facts are facts and flinch not.

Robbie Williams

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak

Richard Attenborough

I prefer fact to fiction.

John B. S. Haldane

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Henry Rollins

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Helen Reddy

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Hilary Mantel

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Henry Hyde

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.