Matter Of Fact Quotes - Page 12

• I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.

  John Fogerty

  Sarcastic, Song, Talking

  Source: www.citypages.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Literature, Matter

  4 Copy quote

• As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

  Michael Gruber

  Childhood, Matter, Facts

  Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as a matter of fact, He has not done this; but rather has committed the preaching to man, telling them to go and disciple all nations. The responsibility lies squarely on our shoulders.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Dream, Lying, Responsibility

  4 Copy quote

• Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

  Helen Fisher

  Reading, Voice, Matter

  14 Copy quote

• Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, People, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

  Woody Hayes

  Graduation, Football, Player

  26 Copy quote

• We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

  Angela Davis

  Daughter, Queens, Kings

  64 Copy quote

• Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

  Kelly Rowland

  Judging, Don't Judge Me, Want

  64 Copy quote

• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

  16 Copy quote

• The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Men

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

  124 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Country, Government

  24 Copy quote

• People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Lying, Heart, Talking

  Theodore Dreiser (2004). “Sister Carrie”, p.83, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

  Zig Ziglar

  Giving Up, Taken, Matter

  13 Copy quote

• We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Incomplete Knowledge, People

  18 Copy quote

• One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

  Dan Flavin

  Art, Thinking, Light

  64 Copy quote

• The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the church, and the church is not quite as in trouble as everybody thinks. As a matter of fact, the church today is absolutely beautiful-she's glorious, she's humble, she's broken, and she's confessing her sin. The problem is what everybody's calling the church today isn't the church. Basically, by and large, what's called the church today is nothing more than a bunch of unconverted church people with unconverted pastors.

  Paul Washer

  Beautiful, Humble, Thinking

  312 Copy quote

• They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

  Paul Weyrich

  Voting, Want, Matter

  "The Hidden Election" by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 1981.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

  Henry Ford

  Opportunity, Two, People

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Essence, Reform, Matter

  5 Copy quote

• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Teaching, College, Men

  4 Copy quote

• The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

  Julian Casablancas

  Sex, People, Drug

  4 Copy quote

• If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying to you, but for lying to himself. As a matter of fact, stop him right in the middle of the story and just hug him. Nine times out of ten he'll just break down and cry. He knows you know.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Sex, Sorry

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

  Meryl Streep

  Matter, Facts, Seniority

  7 Copy quote