Facts Quotes
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
Seth Godin
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However, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.
Vladimir Putin
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Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive
Bernard Lietaer
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She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
Nevil Shute
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It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.
Gabriel Iglesias
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Empiricism and positivism share the common view that scientific knowledge should in some way be derived from the facts arrived at by observation.
Alan Chalmersun
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
Anne Carson
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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
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It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.
Edward Hallett Carr
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We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.
Javier Solana
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As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.
Raul Castro
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
Dan Poynter
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The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.
Saul Bellow
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Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.
Naoki Higashida
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The purpose of an Article 32 hearing is for us to engage witnesses and discover facts. We ended up with a c.i.d. agent and no alleged victims to examine.
Gary Myers
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One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
Helen Keller
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
Plato
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Studs Terkel
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I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.
William Gibson