Matter Of Fact Quotes - Page 2

• I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.

  Grant Morrison

  People, House, Mind

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• I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

  Jim Butcher

  Hate, Ambition, Hands

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Academ's Fury: The Codex Alera: Book Two”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• Raven: "You don't have a hot date, do you?" Alexander: "Yes. I do, as a matter of fact." Raven: "You do?" Alexander: "Yes, and it is almost ending.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Ravens, Hot, Matter

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• What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn’t end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Practice, People, Dry

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• wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sports, Uncles, School

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• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Matter, Facts

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1898). “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals”

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• But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Justice

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.1, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, New York, Divorce

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• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dog, Humble, Thinking

  Letter to his wife (October 23, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

  Harvey Pekar

  Facts, Looks, Stories

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

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• Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self, Wings, Promise

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• The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

  Theodor Herzl

  Long, Entrepreneur, Mind Your Own Business

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• The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Believe, Goal, Effort

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• I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

  Tom Colicchio

  Thinking, People, Matter

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• In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

  J. C. Watts

  Law, Obama Supporters, Accusing Me

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2012.

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• Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.

  Rick Perry

  Father, Crazy, Government

  "Perry Slips Up on History of American Revolution" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  People, Feelings, Earth

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.192, Macmillan

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• You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No offence, Svengal." Svengal shrugged. "None taken. It's a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.

  John Flanagan

  Taken, Trying, Matter

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• As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Matter, Facts, Feels

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• I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Voice, Quality

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

  Virginia Woolf

  Imagination, Matter, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

  Joan Didion

  Understanding, Tea, Hot

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• Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.

  David Hume

  Lying, Moving, Reflection

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• The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

  Steve Grand

  Matter, Facts, Prose

  Steve Grand (2003). “Creation: Life and How to Make It”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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