All Quotes

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.
‐‐ George Papandreou

The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
‐‐ Pat Oliphant

The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
‐‐ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.
‐‐ Al Alvarez

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
‐‐ Lowell Bergman

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
‐‐ John Edwards

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
‐‐ Carol Bartz

The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.
‐‐ Sean M. Carroll

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
‐‐ Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
‐‐ Allen Ginsberg

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else.
‐‐ Geraldine Stutz

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
‐‐ Barney Oliver

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
‐‐ Gianni Agnelli

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
‐‐ Richard Attias

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
‐‐ Elon Musk

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.
‐‐ Todd Bridges

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

The facts are always less than what really happened.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

The facts are on our side.
‐‐ Karen Hughes

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
‐‐ Paul Martin

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
‐‐ John Edwards

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
‐‐ Sophia Loren

The facts of life are very stubborn things.
‐‐ Cleveland Amory

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
‐‐ Rupert Sheldrake

The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
‐‐ Conrad Black

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
‐‐ Ralph Chaplin

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
‐‐ Juan Williams

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
‐‐ Koichi Tanaka

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
‐‐ John Barrasso

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
‐‐ Carroll Quigley

The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.
‐‐ George Akerlof

The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin