Facie Quotes

#1. It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

Thomas Nagel

#2. Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

Tony Abbott

#3. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

Edward Robert Harrison

#4. In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#5. Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Peter Birks

#6. The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#7. A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.

Felix Alba-Juez

#8. I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable.

Jimmy Webb

#9. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Hosea Ballou

#10. The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

Steve Maraboli

#11. Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Billy Graham

#12. I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

John Waters

#13. Now, the people of Florida can't stand him [Marci Rubio]. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher.

Donald Trump

#14. When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Alice Hoffman

#15. The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Bennett Cerf

#16. One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

Susan Orlean

#17. And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

Paul Beatty

#18. The common people say, that physicians are the class
of people who kill other men in the most polite and
courteous manner.

John Of Salisbury

#19. My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Jim Rohn

#20. But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Everett Dirksen

#21. I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold