Fact Trackers Quotes & Sayings

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.' — Jacki Weaver

A traveler. By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's. Then to have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands. — William Shakespeare

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

And what you thought you came for
is only a shell, a husk of meaning
from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
if at all. Either you had no purpose
or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfillment. — T. S. Eliot

Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger. — Robert Greene

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music. — Taylor Swift

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders. — Tim LaHaye

You make pictures, not take them?
Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living ... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image. — Robert James Waller

Philanthropy is ... greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain. — Henry David Thoreau

The artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms of his appeal. His appeal is made to our less obvious capacities: to that part of our nature which, because of the warlike conditions of existence, is necessarily kept out of sight within the more resisting and hard qualities ... His appeal is less loud, more profound, less distinct, more stirring - and sooner forgotten. Yet its effect endures forever ... the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me. — Curtis Sliwa

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's. — Marcel Dzama

I've attended seven schools in ten years," I explain. "So you can rest assured I know you. You're the girl who thinks being cruel is the same thing as being witty. You think being loud is the same thing as being right. And, most of all, you're the girl who is very, very pretty. And also very, very ... common. trust me. There's at least one of you in every school." I watch her features shift. "Oh. Wait. Did you think you were unique? — Ally Carter