Facts Quotes
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The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
Hilary Mantel
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We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
Tommy Franks
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Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
Cecelia Ahern
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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
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Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
Tony Blair
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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.
Alexander Trocchi
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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
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In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
Paul Merton
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I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
Carrot Top
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Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.
Thomas Sowell
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I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.
Bill Clinton
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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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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
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The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.
Carlos Mencia
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Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.
Cecelia Ahern
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It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
Carrie Snow
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
Etgar Keret
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday
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But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.
Sarah Dessen
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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
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Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
Geoffrey Wolff
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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
Wole Soyinka
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
Thomas Sowell