Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place in the understanding of mankind. Every language is a...
Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we wer...
The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of this hormone. ... [T]hose of us who search for new biological facts and for new and better therapeutic weapons should appr...
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central cor to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as ...
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed y...
If you ask, What is a non sequitur? And I say, “Blue love on a blue moon on Mr. Green’s greenback printing machine (the one that sounds like Weimar Germany in 1923)”, then I have given you an example of a non sequitur. But since you asked what ...
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.
The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
