Quotes of: Historical-fact Keyword

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

Ally Sheedy

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Alan Turing

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Bruce Babbitt

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Peter Riegert

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Life

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

Vivek Wadhwa

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Donald Rumsfeld

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Les Dawson

Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous.

Vir Das

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, sl...

The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful information to other members of our species. Stories are not simply nice things to have; they are essential s...

Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting eas...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we no...

Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, ...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The picture of love and truth together is in Jesus. The challenge is to resist the temptation to think in terms of a mixture or recipe: 50% love and 50% truth. The historic creeds affirm Jesus as fully God AND fully human, and likewise with love and ...

Becoming Love. Avoiding Common Forms of Christian Insanity

Peace is not determined by the signage of treaties or the wishes of leaders. Peace is not a discrete event; rather it is a renewable proposition, filled with affirmations designed to mitigate against the collective distrust of two people who knew lit...

Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of o...

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the pretense that it is simply a test propagated by an invisible, intangible, Creator-God. And it should not b...

Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku....

Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda