Fact Quotes

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.