Facts Quotes
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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Jon Corzine
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.
Rachel Hawkins
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Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
Anthony Robbins
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If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain.
Simon Sinek
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A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
J. B. Bury
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I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.
Joshua Lederberg
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I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!
Gabby Douglas
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Abraham Flexner
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality.
Ivan Pavlov
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As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.
Teddy Pendergrass
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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
Tony Kushner
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
Rita Mae Brown
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The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
William Osler
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“I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.
Alix Ohlin
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I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.
Tom Lehrer
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I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
Freya Stark
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.
R. H. Tawney
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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
William Stanley Jevons
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Don't face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
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Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Farley Mowat
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
Dan Pink
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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.
Michael Frayn