Facts Quotes - Page 105

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should!

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.