189 quotes found
“Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.”
“The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.”
“It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.”
“The idea of art for arts sake is a recent Western cultural phenomenon that in some ways both distracts and diminishes the reality of human creative expressions. If we define art broadly, then it pe...”
“China uses about half of the worlds cement for its new roads and buildings.According to the World Bank in 2007, China had 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted cities.One day in January 2013, the air p...”
“In Japan:The shortage of wives for farmers became a rural crisis. In one village in the late 1980s, of unmarried persons between ages 25 and 39, 120 were men and only 31 were women, a ratio of 4:1....”
“Truth is always a factual right...It is not always an absolute right...”
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
“At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even address reality. It is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe. And th...”
“You can't achieve the dream if you're pleasing the team”
“When it comes to scary business, I believe that forewarned is forearmed.”
“In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barbers polelike the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shopsis colored red and white.”
“The Japanese island of Okunoshima, also called Rabbit Island after the many furry inhabitants who live there, was once home to Japans poison gas factories. The rabbits are descendants of ones used ...”
“The most isolated inhabited island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, an active volcano located in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean 1,242 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the nearest land. Trista...”
“You know the facts about me about which even i am unknown...”
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”
“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”
“Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!”
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
