Facts Quotes - Page 35

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

The fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is in Glory occupied with us should lead us into a holy life which glorifies Him. That loving eye is never withdrawn from us. If we were to remember this constantly, what a power this would be in our lives!

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

The life of a non-Muslim to Muslim is worth as much as the life of a chicken is worth to you and me. We don't go around killing every chicken we see. In fact we keep them and feed them as long as they are useful to us. But we don't lose sleep when we have to slaughter them. So it is not that Muslims will necessarily go around massacring every non-Muslim. As long as these non-Muslims are useful to them, they are granted protection.

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.