Facts Quotes
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As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
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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.
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I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.
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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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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?.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
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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.
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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.
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The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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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.
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Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
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I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.
