Pastoral Resources

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.