Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Hyde

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

John McAfee

If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.

Joan Sutherland

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

George Lucas

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

It selectively includes only those factual assertions needed to support those conclusions and ignores other facts that would undermine those conclusions.

They're still assessing the situation, gathering facts and everything else. It would be premature to say anything at this time.

James Gray

They stayed with the facts, and we're very pleased with it,

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

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.

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.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Bill Gothard

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

We're filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there's no seeming end to it.

Tom Daschle

a full investigation of the facts surrounding this situation be undertaken, the sooner the better.

Do you have any facts that someone didn't come forward because they were undocumented?

Andy Weir

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of the contingency plan in its entirety.

It was very much Carol's style: Here are the facts. Let's get it done.

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

This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions.

This isn't to be dramatic, this is just cold, hard facts.

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

Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Baruch Spinoza

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Barbara Mertz

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.