Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

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