Facts Quotes - Page 60

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.