and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better…

— Barack Obama

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better…

— Barack Obama

You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.

— Anna Maxted

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

— Remy de Gourmont

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

— Paul Martin

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

— Rafael Vinoly

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

— Anthony Trollope

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

— Shelby Foote

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of…

— John Cusack

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment…

— Rufus Wainwright

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

— Margaret Atwood

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

— Umberto Eco

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.

— Ben Huh

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov