Facts Quotes - Page 55

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.

Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.

The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.