Quotes of: Sad-fact Keyword

Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as “the problem of time.

Mythology & History

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Don’t get me wrong. I like dogs. I love them, in fact. It’s their human counterparts I could sometimes do without.

Murder Strikes a Pose

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

Moranthology

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Maskerade

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Matched

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

Me Before You

Life is a bunch of 'universal truths', not mine, not anyone else's ...but which exist as a fact..until we 'crack' them for ourselves as 'truths'!

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

Nadja

...we're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Nothing Special

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