Quotes about facts
facts add journalism
Ward Churchill Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.
facts ancestry descent
W. S. Gilbert I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
facts firsts get-up
W. H. Auden Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
facts
Wayne Knight There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
facts chance bigs
Vash Young Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
facts paradox reason
Ursula K. Le Guin The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.
facts politics seems
Robert Peel There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
facts chill trouble
Robert Louis Stevenson There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
facts fax holograms
Saul Williams Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.
facts sensational
Saul Bellow Facts always are sensational.
facts weakness flaws
Sandra Bullock I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
facts
William Faulkner Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
facts sin remorse
Yukio Mishima Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
facts failing enjoy
Zhuangzi The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.
facts exaggeration transmit
Zhuangzi Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
facts ministry fame
Rick Warren The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.
facts agendas pundits
Rick Warren I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.
facts tvs cameras
Topher Grace I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.
facts shock midst
Veronica Roth Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.
facts poet achieve
Robert Graves Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
facts unnecessary infamous
Robert Green Ingersoll When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
facts doe christ
Robert Green Ingersoll If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
facts needs complicated
Sam Altman You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.
facts montauk
Rufus Wainwright I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
facts wheel-of-time proof
Robert Jordan The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
facts indifference wit
William Hazlitt Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
facts quantity
Wendell Berry Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.
facts wordsworth natural
Walter Pater That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
facts truth-is certain
Yann Martel Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.