Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

Tony Abbott

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Simon Sinek

When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.

Simon Sinek

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

Rick Riordan

It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Scott Ritter

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

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.

Lin Yutang

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

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.

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