Facts Quotes
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Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
Jack Charlton
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
Willa Cather
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
Catharine MacKinnon
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Learn, compare, collect the facts!
Ivan Pavlov
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Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.
N. T. Wright
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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.
Avey Tare Animal Collective
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Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
William A. Henry III
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They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.
Santiago Leyva
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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
Michael Moorcock
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I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
Paul Newman
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The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.
Brian Tracy
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
Umberto Eco
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I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.
Kanye West
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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
William James
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Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.
Thomas Sowell
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Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought.
Ernst Mach
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
Karl Lagerfeld
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
Louise Erdrich
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[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
William Blackstone
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William Golding
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The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.
Neil Portnow
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Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.
Joanne Rowling
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If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.
Ann Friedman