Facts Quotes
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Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
Terence McKenna
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
Thomas Carlyle
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I know you Donald Trump live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.
Hillary Clinton
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell
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The facts are - I did say I hoped it Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn't. I wrote about that in my book.
Hillary Clinton
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
Northrop Frye
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Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.
Geert Wilders
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You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.
William Stanley Jevons
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A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Dave Allen
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
Norman Sherry
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This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
Terence McKenna
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
Seth Godin
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller
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In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.
David Bowie
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We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.
Shawn Amos
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I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
Sandra Bullock
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Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.
Terence McKenna
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I believe that the 9th Circuit will not let Robart's decision stand. I say this fully appreciating the fact that the 9th Circuit is the most idiosyncratic in the country and the one most often overruled by the Supreme Court.
David B. Rivkin
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Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.
Simon Sinek
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Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.
Simon Sinek
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The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
Judith Tarr