Facts Quotes - Page 148

The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

The facts are facts and records are records.

So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.

The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.

I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that we're married to overshadow the project itself.We're just looking for something that's so specific and good that it becomes a part of the story of why we did it rather than when we go to do press it's, 'Oh, my God, you're married and that's the only thing we want to talk about.' If we can merge both, that could be great.

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

The fact is I'm very self-similar.

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.