All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Don't judge the whole crowd in a negative manner just because ONE person makes you feel miserable. Everyone's not same! We all… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get… — Joey Adams Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater,… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts… — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dynasty' range, named… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need… — Jonathan S. Tobin Copy Share Image
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Healthy relationships and human interactions are not a power struggle. Be willing to be wrong, while simultaneously exploring your truth — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
