Quotes of: Facts Keyword

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard

But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.

And the Mountains Echoed

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Molecular Biology of the Gene

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

My Sister's Keeper

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

Master of Stupidity

The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.

Master of Stupidity

Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity. It also shows us about politics and corruption; and that's a fact.

Master of Stupidity

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

Master of Stupidity

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Miss Julia Throws a Wedding

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The Nicomachean Ethics

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there’s no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

Now Is the Hour

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

No Country for Old Men

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

North to the Orient

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

No Way Out

For Trisha The truth's in myth not fact, a story fragment or an act that lasts and stands for all: how bees made honey in a skull.

New and Selected Poems

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

Notes from Underground

For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.

Neverdark