Factum Quotes & Sayings

Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned! — Sheryl Lee Ralph

My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything. — Garrison Keillor

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking. — Lorraine Gary

I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. — Joseph Wiseman

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. — John Jay Hooker

Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality. — Erich Fromm

We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch - withdraw - and then conduct a post factum search for evidence that justifies it. We are motivated to fight our foes because we are emotional about them, but emotion is the territorial scent-mark of irrationality. — Will Storr

You can go on losing after loss. — Helene Cixous

Not chance...choice. What we do is more important than what happens." From 'Beauty In The Bones — Holly Gonzalez

Some of the greatest discoveries ... consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious. — Arthur Koestler