Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof.

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

Matt Lauer asked her [Hillary Clinton] tough questions, in fact, questions that should have been asked and followed up on by the FBI in their investigation where they came to a rosy conclusion. So to me, this was actually very helpful. And I think obviously it was big moment there, right out of the bat when we had the naval officer who really put it to Hillary and said listen .

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.