Quotes of: Facts Keyword

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Obedience to Authority

The fact that we’re not lovers makes us more like bees and flowers than rabbits.

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.

Little, Big

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Little Face

The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower.

Lightning Rods

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

The Little Silkworm

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

The Map of Life, Conduct, and Character

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

She Is Me

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

He’s a great guy. He’d give you the shirt off his back if you asked. In fact, I’m wearing his shirt now, and I’m staring at his nipples. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

I am a fact factory. I make things you can’t make up.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

As he himself said, "I will prove it to you, gentlemen, and i will prove it in two ways. First in the blinding clarity of the facts, and second, in the dim light cast by the mind of his criminal soul.

The Stranger

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

The Stolen Voice

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.

Swann's Way

If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a object. in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.

Studies in Words

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

A Thousand Acres

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

One Hundred Names

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray