Facts Quotes - Page 146

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I am in fact more than a dress.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who hold out for that, and who accept that they are idealists and that they are operating on principle as opposed to realpolitik.

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.