Facts Quotes - Page 89

In fact, in Aberdeen, Washington, I am known as Mr. Small Package!

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

You have every right to have your views. But don't let those views get in the way of indisputable facts!

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.