Best 4898 quotes in «facts quotes» category

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?

A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth.

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.

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

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my actual work as a poet. This strikes me as no thing cynically awry but rather seems again instance of that hapless or possibly happy fact, we do not as humans seem necessarily aware of what we are physically or psychically doing at all!

As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.

Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.