All Quotes

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for negotiations and reconciliation with the United States and other members of the international community. This is clearly the preferred option of American leaders.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
‐‐ Confucius

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from expressing themselves the way they want to, something that can't be done in America, that can't be done without money.
‐‐ John Cassavetes

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I'm at home even though I'm not.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
‐‐ Isaac Barrow

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint.
‐‐ Jan Chipchase

Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.
‐‐ James Mooney

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
‐‐ Tom Shadyac

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
‐‐ Jose Mourinho

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
‐‐ Francine Prose

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.
‐‐ John Ridley

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
‐‐ Charles Olson

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
‐‐ Ernest Mandel

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.
‐‐ Fritz Todt

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.
‐‐ Khaleda Zia

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
‐‐ Matthew Scully

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
‐‐ Joan Jett

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
‐‐ Matthew Scully

Factory farming's evil; you know that.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

Facts and particulars annoy me.
‐‐ Clarice Lispector

Facts are counterrevolutionary.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
‐‐ Patrick J. Kennedy

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
‐‐ Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

Facts are not interesting to me.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell