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The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. -- Aleister Crowley
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. -- Rick Moody
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. -- Harper Lee
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. -- John Dewey
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. -- Arnold H. Glasow
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory
Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life. -- Nichiren
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. -- Sophia Loren
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. -- Wilhelm Wundt
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. -- Jane Smiley
Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? -- Nichiren
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -- Henry David Thoreau
Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The facts of life are conservative. -- Mona Charen
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them. -- Dodie Smith
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. -- Victoria Glendinning
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. -- Simon Travaglia
There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life. -- Daryl Gates
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. -- George Eliot
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. -- Saul Bellow
However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end. -- Rachel Ward
One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin. -- P. D. James
Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them. -- Marcel Proust
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . -- Oscar Wilde
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. -- Vivienne Westwood
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able -- Bobby Miller
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It's just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up. -- Ed Sheeran
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life. -- Lily Dougall
It's an important fact of life, war. -- Jeff Goldblum
Globalization is a fact of economic life. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Envy is the central fact of American life. -- Gore Vidal
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. -- Anthony Lewis
Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf. -- Ernie Els
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life! -- Cannonball Adderley
The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. -- Nikki Giovanni
A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. -- Raghu Rai
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. -- Laurie Colwin
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised. -- Martin Freeman
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. -- Vaclav Havel
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. -- Eric Alterman
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. -- Jessica Savitch
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. -- Walter Benjamin
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I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life. -- Marco Rubio
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life. -- Anita Baker
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
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. -- David Chalmers
There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility. -- Robert M. Gates
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. -- bell hooks
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear. -- Charles Stanley
A shilling life will give you all the facts. -- W. H. Auden
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. -- William Bernbach
The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out. -- Norman Sherry
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. -- Richard Ford
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. -- Charles Dickens
Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you. -- Peg Bracken
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. -- Mark Twain
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. -- E. M. Forster
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. -- Charles Dickens
Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. -- Mark Gatiss
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told. -- Elsa Morante
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. -- Brooks Atkinson
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. -- Dorothy Day
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. -- D. H. Lawrence
For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life. -- Reno Collier
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. -- Anne Michaels
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. -- Ann Patchett
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history. -- Alice Miller
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. -- Benjamin Franklin
I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people. -- Kim Fields
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention. -- Sandra Lee Dennis
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention. -- Sandra Lee Dennis
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts. -- Martin Bashir
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. -- Pierre Trudeau
We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her. -- Chris Christie
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in. -- Edward St Aubyn
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. -- Swami Vivekananda
Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right. -- Bryant McGill
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. -- Rob Sheffield
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. -- Sherwood Anderson
the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept. -- yassi tan
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history. -- Karl Barth
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had. -- John Dufresne
It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality. -- Andy Daly
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth. -- James Cameron
Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. -- Will Smith
I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits. -- Kim Fields
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me. -- Phil Keoghan
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. -- William James
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates. -- Bill Vaughan
Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head. -- Mark Twain
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. -- Edward Thorndike
Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts. -- Garth Greenwell
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature -- Josephine Hart
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get. -- James Randi
The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them. -- Susan Glaspell
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. -- Mark Strand

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