Fact Quotes

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.