Facts Quotes - Page 35

• This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.

  John Prescott

  Thinking, February, Release

  "Prescott Triumphs on Slippery Slopes of Syntax" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2004.

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• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  Sarah Palin

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Thinking, Iran

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

  Carroll Quigley

  Sake, Violence, Roles

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Religious, Character, Warrior

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Silly, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.

  Scott Ritter

  Running, Children, Tired

  "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc." by Chris Davis, www.memphisflyer.com. May 03, 2008.

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• Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

  John Maynard Smith

  Theory Of Evolution, May, Natural

  John Maynard Smith (1993). “The Theory of Evolution”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Goal, Fearless

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Interrogation Techniques, President

  "What 'Torture' Is". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. May 18, 2007.

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• The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Attitude, Philosophical, Yesterday

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (p. 10), 1961.

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• Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.

  Frederick Soddy

  Civilization, America, Missing

  "Morning of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Berger, (p. 181), 1963.

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• In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.

  John Searle

  Mean, Expression, Utterance

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

  Jose Saramago

  Perfect, Sublime, Needs

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Our World, Jam

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

  Julius Streicher

  Allies, Remember, Newspapers

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  L. Neil Smith

  Stupid, People, Evil

  "Murder by Gun Control". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 31, 2000.

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• Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.

  L. Neil Smith

  Spiritual, War, Fighting

  "A Little Austrian Flea". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 01, 2009.

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• My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.

  L. Neil Smith

  Uncles, War, Cabins

  "Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, www.lneilsmith.org. February 20, 1994.

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Doubt

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.

  Jack White

  Weed, Thinking, Play

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

  Keith Waterhouse

  Lying, Bed, Abandoned

  Billy Liar ch. 1 (1959)

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• "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Kings, Mean

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 197), 1998.

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• The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

  Brock Yates

  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International

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• I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Boys, Simple

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