Facts Quotes - Page 163

Before we announced Judge Merric Garland, people were saying they would not even deign to meet with him. And we're also aware that early in the week, when the Congress comes back, in fact, Senator Collins, the Republican from Maine, has agreed to meet with Judge Garland up in the Senate.

The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts.

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

All legends have a base in fact.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all. They are theories designed to compute the truth or assertibility conditions of sentences from their components.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.