Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe that the 9th Circuit will not let Robart's decision stand. I say this fully appreciating the fact that the 9th… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Change of regime with respect to Iraq had nothing to do with this; it had everything to do with the fact that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't… — Hunter Biden Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
No matter how cautiously you choose your words, someone will always twist them around and misinterpret what you say. So just say… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole… — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
“I don’t think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time,… — Arman Copy Share Image
Most of my life, everybody made more money than I did at the places I worked. In fact, when I've been an… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line,… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image