Facts Quotes - Page 67

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.

It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.