Facts Quotes
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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 -
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
Geoffrey Wolff
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There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
Nick Sagan -
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
Ernst Haas -
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
Terence McKenna -
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
Terence McKenna -
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
Rick Perry -
The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.
Michael C. Burgess
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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 -
Facts and facts, and things an things: dem's all a lotta focking bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.
Bob Marley -
The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
Hannah Whitall Smith -
Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
Henry Louis Gates -
The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
Seth Godin -
[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.
Audie Cornish
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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon -
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
Ray Bradbury -
You are the creator of your own reality, and so you are not in jeopardy. You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving... It is not what they do to you; it's what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you.
Esther Hicks -
When Bernard Leach wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.
Warren MacKenzie -
History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.
Charles Augustus Briggs -
Facts are not interesting to me.
Ray Bradbury
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Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.
Stanley Hauerwas -
My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?
Simon Sinek -
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury