I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.
We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure it should be about that.
I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about something and that they might learn something.
Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
When people say "you've changed", what they actually mean is that they don't like the fact at all that you've stopped tolerating their bullshit.
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.
And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
