All Quotes

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
‐‐ S. J. Perelman

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.
‐‐ Tim Bishop

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
‐‐ Bo Gritz

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
‐‐ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
‐‐ Henry Steele Commager

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.
‐‐ Deidre Hall

The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
‐‐ Ian Lustick

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.
‐‐ Hugo Pratt

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
‐‐ Bill James

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.
‐‐ Sarah Caldwell

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

The fact is that Hillary Clinton could not stand up to a cheating husband, so how in the world would she stand up to North Korea and some of our other enemies around the globe?
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.
‐‐ Brian Cox

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

The fact is that I loved being in England.
‐‐ Martin Cruz Smith

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
‐‐ Bill Goldberg

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
‐‐ Ron Suskind

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
‐‐ Curtis Sittenfeld

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
‐‐ David Petraeus

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.
‐‐ Allyson Schwartz

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

The fact is that more and more people are developing a sensitivity to gluten, without necessarily being allergic to it.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
‐‐ Harvey Milk

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
‐‐ Ian Watson

The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

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

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
‐‐ Lord Byron

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
‐‐ Safra A. Catz

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
‐‐ James Patterson

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
‐‐ Bono

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow