Quotes of: Facts Keyword

Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by ...

The Souls of Black Folk

It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in...

Foundations of Analysis: The Theory of Limits

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

Doctor Zhivago

I’m hungry for success. And lasagna.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Half is 15%, if 30% is 100%.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

The Book of Hard Truths: 16 Facts of Life We Should Learn to Accept

I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than the fact that I am right-handed. It's a fact of my biography, but it's uninteresting.

Eleanor Catton

It’s a fact I want to own a factory that makes up facts and figures, and I figure to make a fortune selling to politicians.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

Intruders at Rivermead Manor: A Kit Mystery

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Sherlock Holmes

The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

It was surprising to think that in fact they were signs, that is, the ashes of an incinerated voice. Bunların gerçekte yazı işaretleri, yani yanan bir sesin külleri olduklarını düşünmek inanılmaz bir şeydi.

Silk

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

Osama

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The Portable John Adams

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do.

Alice in Wonderland

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Talcott Parsons

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

Ken Jennings

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Ernest Mandel

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those pri...

Floyd Abrams