Facticity Quotes

#1. Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is
claimed, what is asserted here about reality.

Walter Brueggemann

#3. We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#4. The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

Bill Nye

#5. We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally.

Jon Oringer

#6. I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

A. J. McLean

#7. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't ...

Betty Smith

#9. His grin widens, and leaning down, he undoes the tie.

E.L. James

#10. Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

Rashida Jones

#11. She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them.

Thomas Hardy

#12. The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Barry Commoner

#13. There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical ... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

George Brecht

#14. One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

Don Carter

#15. [T]he three greatest works are those of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.
These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton.

Joseph Devlin