Facts Quotes - Page 165

In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.

The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.

The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It`s all pretty extraordinary.