Unpleasant Facts Quotes

#1. If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Paul Fussell

#3. The greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

Marah Ellis Ryan

#4. We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

R.K. Narayan

#5. Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?

John Cheever

#6. Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

Ron Paul

#7. These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

Ben Hogan

#9. At least I'm the one leaving. It's so much easier to leave than to be left.

Stefan Emunds

#10. I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11. The composer ... joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Alan Hovhaness

#12. When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.

Hal Elrod

#13. It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#14. Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

William Cowper