Facts Quotes - Page 24

• Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

  Walt Disney

  Dream, America, Promise Of The Future

  YouTube Chanel "freedogshampoo"/ "Disneyland Opening Day - Part 2", www.youtube.com. April 17, 2007.

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• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  Barbara

  Courage, Pain, Broken

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• . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gratitude, Art, Attitude

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Simple, Two

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• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

  David Letterman

  Turkeys, Pipeline, Want

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• First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, America, Government

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.944, Best Books on

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• I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

  James Herriot

  Writing, Thinking, Made

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• A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Friendship, Self, Law

  Norman Vincent Peale (1976). “The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking”, Not Avail

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• If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Vanity, Ugly

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, Giving Up, Advice

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Trying

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• No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Giving Up, Persistence

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Opportunity, Men, Endless Opportunities

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten. In fact, such a system negatively affects both men and women, holding us all back from true integration, collaboration, and union.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.85, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Mind, Matter

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• Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Practice, Conscious

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• You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Yourself, Yoga, Thinking

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• The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Father, Nice

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• We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

  Paul Simon

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• 'Type one' error is thinking that something special is happening when nothing special really is happening. 'Type two' error is thinking that nothing special is happening, when in fact something rare or infrequent is happening.'

  Marcello Truzzi

  Thinking, Two, Errors

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• We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Holiday, Giving

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• You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

  Dave Barry

  Summer, Humorous, Drinking

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Lines, Probability

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• The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.

  Urijah Faber

  Passion, Mma, People

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