Facts Quotes - Page 68

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

Sometimes I don't like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I'm healthy now.

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.