Matter Of Fact Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Thinking

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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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• You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

  Werner Klemperer

  Play, People, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

  David Eddings

  Thinking, Should Have, Might

  "The Seeress of Kell".

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• All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

  Roger Waters

  Hate, Fighting, Dark

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• All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.

  David Hume

  Determination, Real, Men

  David Hume (2015). “Of the Standard of Taste”, p.4, David Hume

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• I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.

  Pentti Linkola

  Two, People, Matter

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.118, Arktos

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• As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.

  Alice Munro

  Strong, Giving Up, Passion

  "Passion" by Alice Munro, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2004.

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• There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Children, Imagination

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• Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Crazy, Book

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• Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the woods with a few close friends and get it done?" Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not." As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.

  John Flanagan

  Wise, Couple, Simple

  John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.13, Random House

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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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• 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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• Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Moving, Knowing

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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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