Matter Of Fact Quotes - Page 11

• Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

  Tom T. Hall

  Beer, Matter, Too Much

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• Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

  Margaret Halsey

  Commitment, Reality, Variables

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Doubt, Quality

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• As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

  L. Frank Baum

  Criticism, Matter, Faults

  L. Frank Baum (2011). “A Wonderful Welcome to Oz: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, & The Emerald City of Oz”, p.148, Modern Library

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• I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

  Ralph Abraham

  Believe, World, Matter

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• As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Support, Ordinary, Doe

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”

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• There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heart, Mean, Reality

  "A God of Surprises". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. March 20, 2014.

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• As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

  Anne Desclos

  Past, Ties, Voice

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• One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that extensive biographical material would be available. He was observed by multitudes of people, and his own followers numbered into the hundreds (1 Cor. 15:6), whose witness was still living in the middle of the first century. As a matter of fact, the amount of information concerning him is comparatively meager. Aside from the four Gospels, and a few scattered allusions in the epistles, contemporary history is almost silent concerning him.

  Merrill C. Tenney

  Jesus, People, Important

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• Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

  Henry Mayhew

  Ideas, Elements, Useless

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157

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• And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Government, Giving, Decision

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• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  Zach Wamp

  Believe, Organization, Matter

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• Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Intellectual, Matter, Way

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• Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

  John Milius

  People, Style, Use

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• I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Marriage, Inspiration, Sleep

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• I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

  Larry Holmes

  Nice, Office, Fans

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• Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very precise. So as far as I'm concerned, the kind of photography I did in the FSA was the kind of photography I still do today, because it is based on passionate concern for the human condition. That is the basis of all the work that I do.

  Jack Delano

  Photography, Thinking, Passionate

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• ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses.

  David Hume

  Memories, Past, Words Of Wisdom

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• I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.2, 谷月社

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• One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

  David Lloyd George

  Justice, Waiting, Political

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• When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.

  Alex Kendrick

  Country, Brother, New York

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

  Jimmy Carter

  Important, Needs, Matter

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Guilt

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