Facts Quotes
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Paul de Man -
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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Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.
Teju Cole -
Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.
Ayanna Pressley -
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 -
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.
Seth Godin -
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
William Hurt -
At this point we are offering opinions, and I will get facts at the next board meeting.
Chris Black
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I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake -
The sum of a million facts is not the truth.
William Manchester -
A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.
Caroline Norton -
They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.
Andrzej Sapkowski -
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
William Arthur Ward -
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
Virginia Woolf
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The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
William Schreyer -
As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who would work out with me: my dogs. As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running.
George Foreman -
Facts are not interesting to me.
Ray Bradbury -
The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
U.G. Krishnamurti -
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
Sarah Churchwell -
The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.
Charles A. Reich
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The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.
Francis Chan -
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 -
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 -
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
Sarah Churchwell