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Comment is free but facts are sacred.
CHARLES PRESTWICH SCOTT
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
CHARLES SCOTT
Comments are free but facts are sacred.
CHARLES PRESTWICH SCOTT
Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We are reviewing the facts of the situation and have no comment at this time.
JOSH KRULEWITZ
I don't think we want to comment, because it sounds like the facts are still unfolding.
BETH STONE
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, ...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES
William: Sorry about the "surreal but nice" comment.
Anna Scott: Don't worry, I thought the who...
NOTTING HILL
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Women are sacred.
VIN DIESEL
Our position is that if state ethics laws have been broken, that's a serious concern. But we don't k...
DAVID KINKADE
But facts are facts and flinch not
ROBERT BROWNING
Until I know all the facts and see what the outcome ... is, I'm really not going to make any comment...
GARY DAWSON
What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every...
ROGER B. TANEY
We feel that free speech and artistic expression are sacred. But the Oscars should think twice about...
YOSSI ZUR
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.
MAYA ANGELOU
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...
PHILIP ROTH
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is for...
PHILIP ROTH
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
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If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
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Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
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If he's selling cocaine to Scott Schiller, he's selling cocaine to other people. Now he gets a free ...
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Charles Wynn ran the ball really well, but Charles did most of that (himself).
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable
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I'm not a fan of facts. You see, facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what ...
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But they looked across that courtroom and they saw another stone-faced, emotionless, sometimes even ...
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I like facts, I like books, I like films... but you still know the few from everything about me.
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred characte...
JAMES MONROE
We are currently investigating the claims, but cannot comment further on pending litigation.
JAY MUSOLF
Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.
DARNELL LAMONT WALKER
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
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Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again c...
WILLIAM JAMES
The American people are entitled to the facts. The grand jury is entitled to the facts. That is our ...
CHARLES BAKALY
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but ...
MARK TWAIN
These shoes are Mr Silly's shoes, Scott.
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the...
HAROLD S. GENEEN
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a...
NORTHROP FRYE
...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charl...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
The insults against Prophet Muhammad are not the result of freedom of opinion but because what is sa...
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We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opp...
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One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.
STEVE BOX
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is t...
WENDELL BERRY
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
WALT WHITMAN
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN
There's no difference right now in the stature right now of the Brier or the Scott - that's the bott...
PAUL BOUTILIER
Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
RYAN HOLIDAY
That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too...
JONATHAN DEE
We are in discussions to sell Turner South but are not going to comment on any of our negotiations.
SHIRLEY POWELL
Team policy is not to comment on trade rumors, no matter how absurd they may be. But they are frustr...
FRANK HAMBLEN
We are not going to comment because the NTSB review of the accident is still ongoing and we feel it ...
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When the wheels are coming off the bus no p/e is too low,
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When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ
These are the type of fights Scott Harrison likes,
FRANK MALONEY
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
PATRICK MOYNIHAN
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN
Children are sacred beings.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty. 'P-ilfering P-adgett's...
STEVEN GOULD
I have stories. But stories are not facts.'
'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the t...
MORGAN RHODES
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD
Courage is being who you are.
Courage is sacred of thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
FREDERICK HUDSON ECKER
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"
She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You...
SHERRILYN KENYON
No comment. That would be my comment to you. No comment.
CHARLIE DACEY
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I...
JEANIENE FROST
Coach P is a firecracker,
CHESTER PITTS
It’s not facts that are important but what we say about them.
CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
But (Prince) Charles is leaving for India next week so she had to get back.
GIAAN ROONEY
History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a ...
PASCAL MERCIER
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you ha...
KEVIN CARON
A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you ha...
KEVIN CARON
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make fac...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make fa...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make fac...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv...
CHARLES LAMB
People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gon...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN
The S&P news helped. But we are having large inflows as big banks move more money into Latin America...
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The S&P news helped. But we are having large inflows as big banks move more money into Latin America...
CARLOS AUGUSTO LEVORIN
P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Th...
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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our cou...
ARI FLEISCHER
We are not permitted to comment on it,
BRIAN CASHMAN
But there are no automatic penalties. We always look at facts and specifics.
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P. T. BARNUM
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. BARNUM
Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
P. T. BARNUM
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. BARNUM
I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD
Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS
I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS
For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS
My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY
There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY
With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY
I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY