Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.
In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.
Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion. . . He was convinced that was right. . . The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.
My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.
The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.
When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.
If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.