Fact Quotes

• I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

  

  Eleanor Antin
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Adore

• Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Character
  • Play
  • Fact

• It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Money
  • Elites

• In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

  

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Way
  • Discovery
  • Fact

• I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Hide

• You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Angry
  • Fact
  • Punished

• Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?

  

  Brian Thompson
  • Voice
  • Heroes
  • Romantic comedy stereotype

• It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

  

  Alistair Begg
  • God
  • Forgiveness
  • Fact

• If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

  

  Neville Goddard
  • True
  • Desire
  • Fact

• I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Fact
  • Older
  • Aging

• The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

  

  Steven Pinker
  • Mind
  • Fact
  • Zero

• There is no historical fact that did not owe its origin to social economics; but it is no less true to say that there is no historical fact that was not preceded, not accompanied, and not succeeded by a definite state of consciousness.

  

  Georgi Plekhanov
  • Consciousness
  • Fact
  • Historical

• Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.

  

  Abigail Padgett
  • Power
  • Fact
  • Slaves

• I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Fact
  • Accept
  • Limit

• Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.

  

  Nikki Jean
  • Prince
  • Fact
  • Gemini

• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

  

  J. Anderson Thomson
  • Kill
  • Error
  • Establishing

• In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Inspired
  • Written
  • Fact

• It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Marriage
  • Doubt
  • Impression

• It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

  

  Amy Harmon
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Fact

• In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Important
  • Equality
  • Relationships

• But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • People
  • Smart
  • Wall Street

• I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me.

  

  Bethany Dillon
  • People
  • Home
  • Fact

• Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Curiosity
  • Fact
  • Astonishment

• The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.

  

  Josef Albers
  • Artist
  • Concern
  • Effect

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