Quotes of: Sad-fact Keyword

Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.

Daughter of Anat

And of course it has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't been with a women since I came to your bed back in February-Devlin.

Devil Takes a Bride

Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself...

The Dragon's Disciples

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong.

A Damaged Mirror

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

Economics

You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

Eclipse

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

Eclipse

She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that did not give her reason to judge them

Edwina

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

Eat, Pray, Love

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Embers

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!

The Eagle & the Nightingales

Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.

Endgame

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. .

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past.

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

The Exorcist

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

The Family Fang