Pastoral Resources

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.