In Fact Quotes (page 7)

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• effort
• trying
• turn

In fact, the harder he tried, the more laughable his efforts turned out. Kazuo Ishiguro

• believe
• broken
• thoughts

In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems. Joan Didion

• cat
• goals
• intelligent

In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them. Steven Pinker

• work
• saying
• worked

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work? Elizabeth Gilbert

• people
• she
• look

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves. Doris Lessing

• single
• commitment
• manly

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly. Soren Kierkegaard

• kindness
• play
• wellness

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. Gerry Mulligan

• fear
• watch
• influence

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it. Paul Merton

• men
• fighting
• view

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia

• facts
• harmed
• individualization

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. John Grierson

• kindness
• courage
• thinking you

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' Lady Gaga

• history
• facts
• belong

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. Hans-Georg Gadamer

• terrorists
• suffer
• expenses

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. Alberto Fujimori

• personal
• husband
• personality

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. Michael J. Fox

• physics
• change
• believe

In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that. Jock Sturges