Fact Checked Quotes

#1. I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

Alex Gibney

#2. When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.

Walter Kirn

#3. Why hyphenate, why parenthesize, unless absolutely necessary?

Margaret Atwood

#4. The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.

Jalpa Williby

#6. Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

#7. Every actor, every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood, or else you're nothing!

Rita Hayworth

#8. I hold him as close as I dare. Even if my entire life goes to shit before breakfast tomorrow, I'll always have this night.

Sarina Bowen

#9. I checked out your blog.'
Oh. Dear. Baby. Jesus. How did he find it? Wait. More importantly was the fact he HAD found it. Was my blog now googleable? That was awesomesauce with an extra heaping of sauce.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

N. T. Wright

#12. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.

Brandon Stanton

#14. I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. The widest point of disagreement between two intelligent people who can talk to each other is where there is the most to be learned.

Brett Ashton

#16. I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.

Alison Lohman

#17. I casually lean against the mailbox and pretend to ignore the fact that she totally just checked me out. I'll ignore it to save her embarassment, but I'm definitely not going to forget it. In fact, I'll probably be thinking about the way her eyes scrolled down my body for the rest of the damn day.

Colleen Hoover