Facts Quotes - Page 156

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

Facts may speak for themselves.

I'm comfortable with anything after the fact.

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.