Facts Quotes - Page 118

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.

I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof.

However, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.

We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

You don't know what I'm going to say until I say it and that's because I'm only looking at the facts and the evidence.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.