Facts Quotes

• He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Punishment
  • Discretion
  • Weighing

• I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

  

  Willie Smits
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Stress

• I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Accepting

• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Names
  • Lasts

• What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Process
  • Littles
  • Common

• Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Time
  • Why
  • Die

• I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Facts
  • Deal
  • Assertion

• Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Energy
  • Law
  • Pain

• The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

  

  Catherine Destivelle
  • Facts
  • Months
  • Pregnant

• When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Decision
  • Facts
  • Faces

• Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Art
  • Firsts
  • Celebration

• Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • Facts
  • Simultaneous
  • Telepathy

• You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Name
  • Bachelor
  • Solicitor

• She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • House
  • Space
  • Made

• We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Leader
  • Faces
  • Insane

• Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

  

  H. L. Richardson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Power

• There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Form
  • Doctrine
  • Portions

• Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Giving
  • Sleep

• In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Men
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Natural
  • Tests
  • Elude

• Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Solitude
  • Groups
  • Careful

• I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Facts
  • Sorrow
  • Tough

• 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
  • Father
  • Devil
  • Alive

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