Quotes of: Facts Keyword

The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.

Family Pictures

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

Foxglove Summer

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

The Forsyte Saga

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Girl, Interrupted

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Gilead

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

The Gargoyle

, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

The Grammar of Science

Got a problem? Good that you know you have one. Otherwise people either don’t know that they have or they don’t accept the fact that they have any.

GWG

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

The Grapes of Wrath

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

Homage to Catalonia

One Day World Peace Will Be More Than One's Imagination...It Will Be Humanity's Fact.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

Beauty's Curse

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

Books v. Cigarettes

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Black: The Birth of Evil

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.

Broken Harbour

I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact.

Beginner's Luke

. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]

The Bay of Noon

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

Battle Royale

I’m nobody’s bitch.” He growled low and threatening. “But you were mine.” Kane cut in deep and matter of fact.

The Boy with the Koi Tattoo

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

The Bowl