Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry James

The fatal futility of Fact.

Henry Charles Carey

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Steven Soderbergh

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Raymond Cruz

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

Tom Tancredo

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

Tom Stoppard

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Tom Paulin

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

Joseph Murphy

All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

Mark Levin

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

Nathan Lane

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

Martin Heidegger

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

Martin Heidegger

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Marilyn Monroe

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Paula Rego

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

Paula Rego

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Mark Spitz

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Marilyn Ferguson

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

Peter Drucker

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

Edith Hamilton

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Salman Khan

The media also wrote a lot of incorrect facts about me. This did not help me either. The media kept hammering me, but I maintained my silence.

Henri Poincare

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.

Henri Poincare

Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.

James Hansen

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

Libba Bray

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Friedrich Engels

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Frederick Soddy

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

George Gaylord Simpson

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

George Gilder

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Jon Krakauer

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Johnny Carson

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

Luigi Pirandello

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.