Facts Quotes - Page 16

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.