Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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,

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.

Hayden Panettiere

Beauty is an opinion not a fact

Hans Kung

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Henry David Thoreau

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

Henry David Thoreau

I would stand upon facts.

Jean Genet

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

James Bryant Conant

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

Jai Courtney

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

James G. Frazer

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

J. A. Jance

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

Ernst Haas

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Henry Mayhew

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

Jacques Yves Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Fulton J. Sheen

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Chris Moneymaker

Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

Geoffrey Rush

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Gary Numan

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

Frank Rich

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

George Orwell

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Jerome Bruner

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.