Facts Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

  Robert Redford

  Sadness, Thinking, Facts

  "American Dreamer". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

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• It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Listening, Dresses, Facts

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• Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

  Hugo Black

  Sex, People, Abuse

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• It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Hurt, Heart, Facts

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• The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

  Kirk Douglas

  Block, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Facts, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1421, Delphi Classics

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• Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Psychology, Fields

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The facts of life are conservative.

  Mona Charen

  Facts, Conservative

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• I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

  P. D. James

  Skulls, Skins, Facts

  P.D. James (2012). “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Perseverance, Progress, Want

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

  Jennifer James

  Change, Skills, Twenties

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

  James Buchan

  Couple, Love You, People

  "The women come and go". www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2004.

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• When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

  Anita Baker

  Hate, Moving, Thinking

  "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.

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• Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him.

  Lora Leigh

  Girl, Boys, Opposites

  Lora Leigh (2015). “Too Hot to Touch: Three Breeds Novellas”, p.131, Penguin

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Europe, America

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.175, Bantam

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• It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

  Chris Matthews

  People, Negative, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• ...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

  Anne Fortier

  Taken, Pimples, Facts

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Two, People

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• Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

  Joan Collins

  People, Cinema, Want

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• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

  Rick Moody

  Fiction, Facts, Bondage

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• As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

  Martin Parr

  Artist, Facts, Decline

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• I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.  The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, People, Feelings

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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• Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

  George Eliot

  Philosophy, Women, Facts

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 11

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• So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

  Gunter Grass

  Risk, Complaining, Development

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