Facts Quotes - Page 91

When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public.

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.