Quotes of: Sad-fact Keyword

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to lea...

Super Sad True Love Story

Maybe it’s something to do with the movements: the Cat and then the Cow, the twist to the left and then to the right, the reaching up, and then bending to the ground, the constant training of the body to move one way, and then to move in the opposi...

Yin, Yang, Yogini: A Woman's Quest for Balance, Strength, and Inner Peace

They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely, but not well, And sank heart-wounded by a subtle spell. They knew not fear that to the foeman yields, They were not weak, ...

Love

If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do i...

Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives

Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through – I mean complex for someone with t...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

The Existence Of God

I went on a blind date—with a descendent of Helen Keller.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Men are from vaginas, and women are from women.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I have a strong opinion on steroids.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Sexy is fine. So is OK.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

Androcles and the Lion

Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world.

The Spice of Life

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

I’m afraid of fear, men named Raef, and palindromes.

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.

Stop Workplace Drama: Train Your Team to Have No Excuses, No Complaints, and No Regrets

Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.

The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human

...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Public Opinion