Facts Quotes - Page 142

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

I'm concerned with the world economy, I'm a specialist in forecasting in that area, and I have a lot of influence in that area, naturally. How big it is, or how big it is personally, is not relevant. The fact is, I'm on the case, where other people are not, and more and more people realize, again and again, that I'm on the case!

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

If you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word you are literally painting your future or making your dinner - whatever you want to call it - you are creating ... and you are creating your own life.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life.