Facts Quotes

• Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our ­artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.

  

  Neil Portnow
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Influence

• I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Mysterious
  • Evidence
  • Deities

• I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Book
  • Ends
  • Decided

• Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

  

  William James
  • Facts
  • Virtue
  • Models

• In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Problem
  • Violence
  • Resolve

• The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Present
  • Confusion
  • Clutter

• Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I worry about,” Alexander said. “She’s a delicate lass,” Hugh added. “Aye,” said Gregor. “A Scottish rose.” “Your tender, delicate rose had me ambushed, knocked unconscious, and forced to wed,” Jack ground out. “Facts you all know, if you’ve spoken to Hamish.” Dougal grinned, his teeth flashing whitely. “She has the devil’s own temper, our Fiona does.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Heart
  • Rose
  • Teeth

• 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
  • People
  • Support
  • Normal

• A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Knowledge
  • Facts
  • Paranoid

• 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

• Facts cling to photographs like dust.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • Facts
  • Photograph
  • Dust

• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Past
  • Racism
  • Tragic

• The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

  

  Celia Green
  • Control
  • Ignore
  • Method

• But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

  

  William James
  • Enough
  • Facts

• The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

  

  William Shawn
  • Accuracy
  • Devoted
  • Literal

• Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Stories
  • Position
  • Universal

• The truer the facts the better the fiction.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Facts
  • Fiction

• In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • People
  • War
  • Strong

• Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Opportunity
  • Actors
  • Cameras

• They grieve until they find the individual alive, and if they don't, and the computer matches them up, then the grieving process moves on. It's reality now, and hope has diminished into facts

  

  John Callahan
  • Hope
  • Process
  • Alive

• The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

  

  George C. Homans
  • People
  • Long
  • Justice

• Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Lasts
  • Owing

• The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words...to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.

  

  Anthony W. Ivins
  • Opinion
  • Argument
  • Word Of The Lord

• So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

  

  Joshua Michael Stern
  • Guy
  • Film
  • Jobs

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