Quotes of: Sad-fact Keyword

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Charles Polanyi

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

William Glasser

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

David Seabury

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Bryan Ferry

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel...

The Fault in Our Stars

Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker, and my head was a balloon, incapable of thoughts. I didn't think about Dad, I didn't think about you...

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shri...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Uncle Albert had been asked if there is a way to get down from being up in the air] Uncle Albert: There is a way. And frankly, I don't like to think of it, because you have to think of something sad. Mary Poppins: Then do get on with it, please. Unc...

Mary Poppins

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Peter Coyote

I prefer fact to fiction.

Richard Attenborough

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Oliver Cromwell

The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.

Consider Phlebas

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

A Countess Below Stairs

Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence

Catch-22

I love you, baby girl. When you’re sad, I am too.

Daddy's Girl

what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

The Duke and I

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Devotion: A Memoir

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

Dark Places

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

Disgrace

Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.

The Devil's Star