Facts And Fables Quotes & Sayings

What do you know of the Knights?" he asked.

Fin shrugged. "I thought knights were only in children's stories until a few days ago."

Jeannot smiled. "A man could do worse than to live in the stories of a child. There is, perhaps, no better remembrance."

"Until the child grows up and finds out the stories aren't true. You might be knights, but I don't see any shining armor," Fin said.

Jeannot stopped near the gate of the auberge and faced her. "Each time a story is told, the details and accuracies and facts are winnowed away until all that remains is the heart of the tale. If there is truth at the heart of it, a tale may live forever. As a knight, there is no dragon to slay, no maiden to rescue, and no miraculous grail to uncover. A knight seeks the truth beneath these things, seeks the heart. We call this the corso. The path set before us. The race we must run. — A.S. Peterson

Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show. — Dennis Vickers

I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world! — Elaine Stritch

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too. — Jim Valvano

There's not a woman in the world who won't buy a Lie she wants to Believe — Olivia Goldsmith

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility. — Peter L. Berger

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted. — Tariq Ali

Vichy emerged not only from what divided the French but also what united them: pacifism, fear of population decline, loss of confidence in national identity, anti-Semitism, discontent with existing political institutions, ambivalence about modernity. The existence of this common — Julian T. Jackson

What you seek you shall never find.
For when the Gods made man,
They kept immortality to themselves.
Fill your belly.
Day and night make merry.
Let Days be full of joy.
Love the child who holds your hand.
Let your wife delight in your embrace.
For these alone are the concerns of man. — The Epic Of Gilgamesh

We are now after 7 months operation making money here. — Henry Wells

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. — Ralph Cudworth

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is. — Simon Sinek