Fact Quotes

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.