Facts Quotes - Page 172

In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or another, some of them have been rejected a lot, in fact. Find people you trust and listen to them.

The fact that the talks are resuming is a big positive. But it's going to be a slow process.

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take a picture of!" That's almost a sure sign that you shouldn't do it.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?