When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true.
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
I don’t believe that there’s such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it’s very important to democracy.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act’s provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man’s redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans.
People don’t like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists’ thoughts.
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.
When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don’t remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don’t get all the facts, it can’t be right.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.
Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn’t have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
I was obsessed with Lil’ Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn’t see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.
I don’t have a great respect for reality or getting the ‘facts’ as a means of putting together a story.
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California’s need to be improved.
I wouldn’t want to write a biography of anyone. I’d feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject’s life justice.
Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn’t work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don’t you think you should be pitching more with questions?
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
Comedy’s the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.
I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.
If I got my hands on the Mueller report, the thing I’d want to see is what are the reasons why Barr made the conclusion about obstruction of justice that he did? Was it because of the facts? If so, why didn’t he try and interview Trump to learn all the facts?
I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the ‘New York Times’ to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They’re stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we’re drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.
I’m not in the business of being ‘friendly.’ First and foremost, I’m a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too – a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.
Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don’t lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn’t.
Whenever we say a person’s name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, ‘She’s thoughtless’ goes beyond the facts ‘She said she’d call me and she didn’t.’
People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don’t know. That’s your probability edge.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
The idea behind a dish – the delight and the surprise – makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn’t just ‘Here’s the facts – boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.’ It’s how you tell it.
I miss my ‘Facts of Life’ family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
When I’m writing fiction I’m thinking, God, this is so hard – I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don’t have to be so much at sea.
I don’t see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
I don’t retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is – because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.
