Facts Quotes - Page 147

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight.

All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

In fact, it's in my interest to love digital recording, and I just spent a ton on a new digital recording system, so I speak from a place of heavy investment in both sides.

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.