Facts Quotes - Page 109

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can you get us in?" That's so pretentious. I'm pretty simple except for the fact that I have a really great boat and a little bit of money. When I'm offstage I don't feel like the person everybody sees.

As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth.