All Quotes

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn things.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
‐‐ John Adams

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
‐‐ Louis Agassiz

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
‐‐ Linus Pauling

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
‐‐ Paul Simon

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Facts do not speak.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
‐‐ Bono

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer

'Facts of Life' was and continues to be a milestone on my journey. But when people act like the journey ended when 'Facts of Life' ended, that's annoying. I could never and would never want to divorce myself from it because it was such a great experience from so many different facets.
‐‐ Kim Fields

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
‐‐ John Ridley

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
‐‐ Galileo Galilei

Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
‐‐ Daniel H. Hill

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
‐‐ Conway Twitty

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.
‐‐ Holly Black

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Fage does not make great yogurt.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
‐‐ John Berger

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.
‐‐ John Sayles

Fail again, fail better.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
‐‐ Robert Browning

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
‐‐ Astro Teller

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
‐‐ Richard Hammond

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
‐‐ Pope Paul VI

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
‐‐ Alan Lakein

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
‐‐ George Eliot

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
‐‐ Montgomery Clift

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
‐‐ Matt Emmons

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
‐‐ Joe Biden

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
‐‐ Mia Hamm

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
‐‐ Markus Zusak