Fact Quotes
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
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I have to go away, but with regrets and with the firm intention to come back soon. I consider most sound I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
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I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.
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Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.
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For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.
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The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.
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One of our competitors has created this myth that DC power is more efficient. In fact, the opposite is true.
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Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.
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It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.
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QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.
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I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
