Uncontroverted Material Facts Quotes

#1. In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Allison Pearson

#2. The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Charles Dickens

#3. It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

Tia Carrere

#5. Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.

George R R Martin

#6. When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

Bill Walton

#7. Traveller is my only companion ... He and I ... wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

Robert E.Lee

#8. Sergeant Major," Arjun said quietly, "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Yur snorted. "Is that a fancy way of saying it's above my pay grade, sir?

Neal Stephenson

#9. Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

Sonia Sotomayor

#10. Be impatient enough to start going after your dreams now but patient enough to watch them manifest.

Matthew Donnelly

#11. If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then knowledge includes nothing which is not due to the effort of man, and there is nothing gratuitous about it, nothing "inspired", nothing "given" about it.

Josef Pieper