Facts Quotes
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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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.
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The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
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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.
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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.
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
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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.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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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.
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Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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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.
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Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.
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Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
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The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.
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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.
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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.
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In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
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Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
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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.
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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
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In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
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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?
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Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
