Checking Facts Quotes & Sayings

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking! — Mick Jagger

I get to be creative and touch other people's lives. — Lisa Vidal

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me. — Paula Patton

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. — Delta Burke

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him. — David Bowie

Peace that is bought will reach its expiry even before the date printed on the flap. — Andy Paula

Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you."
"No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my task of checking on you less onerous. I'm glad you're awake. You snore abominably."
I let this comment pass. "You've grown." I observed.
"Yes. So have you. And you've been sick. And you slept quite a long time. And now you're awake and bathed and fed. You still look terrible. But you no longer smell. It's late afternoon now. Are there any other obvious facts you'd like to review? — Robin Hobb

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. — Jim Rogers

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art — Gary Hopkins

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts. — Tim LaHaye

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking. — Jane Hirshfield

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast. — Alex Gibney

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization. — Bruno Schulz

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature. — James Hollis

Witchcraft promotes the advantages of learning and applying new symbolism into one's psyche, this is the witches code. — Gede Parma

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. — Geri Halliwell

Dear God, teach me to be careless. — Hanif Kureishi

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson

You must always try to go through the clouds. — Fred Coleman