Facts Quotes - Page 141

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.

Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.