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A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
Joe Moore
Time
,
Money
,
Simple
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
Bob Riley
Person
,
Makes
,
Possible
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Love
,
Great
,
Respect
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan Quayle
Matter
,
Almost
,
Space
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Marquis de Sade
Human
,
Cannot
,
Lose
The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
Barney Frank
Give
,
Group
,
Eat
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
Camille Paglia
Sex
,
Accept
,
Danger
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Alone
,
Live
,
Words
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Denis Diderot
True
,
Said
,
Desire
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire
Poetry
,
She
,
Horror
Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
Larry David
Nothing
,
May
,
Jewish
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
Michael Caine
Work
,
Good
,
Someone
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
Jimmy Carter
Health
,
Care
,
Blocking
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
Jimmy Carter
Good
,
Long
,
Pretty
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
Jimmy Carter
Black
,
American
,
President
I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.
Robert Plant
Best
,
Place
,
Getting
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashley Montagu
Women
,
Reality
,
Natural
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates
Knowledge
,
Science
,
Ignorance
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin
Human
,
Reality
,
Suffering
Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.
Jonathan Davis
Time
,
Nice
,
Trying
The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
Emma Thompson
Sex
,
Young
,
Whether
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
David Hockney
Challenge
,
Difficult
,
Themselves
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
Book
,
Lost
,
After
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Bono
Mean
,
Poverty
,
Whole
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
Megan Fox
Words
,
Story
,
Create
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.
Martin Scorsese
End
,
Said
,
Seen
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
Hard
,
Cannot
,
Suffering
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
Politics
,
History
,
Freedom
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
Life
,
Hope
,
Human
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard
Children
,
Parents
,
Long
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