Facts Quotes · Page 442

I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go…

— Jodi Picoult

Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust… The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both…

— John Wesley

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge…

— Lena Dunham

The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of…

— Pearl Bailey

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that…

— Bruce Schneier

You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings…

— George Lucas

And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that…

— Sydney Banks

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be…

— Vera Brittain

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word…

— Charles Bukowski

People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact…

— John Nance Garner

It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you…

— Gerald Hausman

Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields…

— Gabrielle Roth

I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to…

— Ekoplekz

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their…

— Ludwig von Mises

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we…

— Henry Rosovsky

What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual…

— Noam Chomsky

My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in,…

— Ariel Pink

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,…

— Stephen Metcalf

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable…

— Willa Cather

Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will…

— Douglas Adams

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being…

— Indira Gandhi

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material…

— Josiah Royce

You can *END* all types of things such as hate, anger, aggression, jealousy, grudges, temper, rage, arguments, relationships, fights, personal vendettas, beefs,…

— C-DASH

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in…

— Nancy Grace

In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not…

— Cholly Atkins

Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes…

— Marilla Ricker

Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that…

— Elie Wiesel

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is..…

— Dick Cheney

What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic…

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy…

— Ernest Gellner

I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a…

— Rich Sommer

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to…

— George S. Patton

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only…

— Madame de Stael