“My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.” PeopleFactsHomeLawYoungWishIssuesBrotherAccidentsInjuryIn-lawsCoverageBrother In LawFiancee Author:Gary Lineker
“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesLongDoeFactsRunningAbleYoungBitsParentHavensBabyLittle BitSelfishMates Author:Nick Moran
“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.” FactsAgeWantedYoungActorsFunWorryAudienceStageTheatreGet UpYoung Age Author:Olivia Williams
“The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.” ThinkingFactsYoungBlackRightsGayGreenCivil RightsAfrican AmericanBrownPurpleObtaining Author:Octavia Spencer
“Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.” ChildrenFactsYoungFeltMy OwnIdentityWho I AmConfusedYoung ChildrenAmbivalent Author:James McGreevey
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'” ThinkingKindFactsAgeYoungCourageBraveryBullyingYoung AgeBulliedBeing Bullied Author:Lady Gaga
“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought” WorldHumansMeanSelfFactsAgeLawYoungScienceFoundHuman BeingsPureEnlightenmentGainsAgreeImpressionFascinatedEvidentYoung AgeSuccessionScientific MethodRegularity Author:Max Planck
“I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.” PeopleWantStillsTwoFactsYoungThreeAliveMagicSurfaceFlats Author:Burton Silverman
“I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen as a moral actor.” ThinkingShouldBelieveFactsCareYoungActorsI BelieveSexDecisionMoralFineImpactYoung WomenSexuallyVirginityHaving Sex Author:Jessica Valenti
“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.” PeopleTryingStillsFactsYoungIdentityYouthFindingsSuitsMaskUncertainSuccessionFinding The One Author:W. H. Auden
“I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.” PeopleIfsMenWayMindLooksFactsTogetherYoungSidesBlackDifferencesWhiteCommonDiseaseMen And WomenDividesBlack And WhiteBoth SidesAstounded Author:Doris Lessing
“The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.” MenShouldFactsChristianYoungBoysEvidenceRemarkableImperfectHumanitarianismForbearance Author:Ambrose Bierce
“a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...” MenWayYearsHas BeensDifferentWholeFactsRunningYoungCertainChoicesBeliefDifferencesCommonBehindsCareersFieldsUniqueConsciousMen And WomenMeaningfulChosenSuperiorsYoung ManMaking A DifferenceCrucialPercentagesImpetusCareers Choices Author:David Foster Wallace
“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.” IfsRealEndsFactsYoungMoralIssuesFateGenerationsCenturyDegreesArmyPoliceCharityIncomeOutcomesDependentConcentrationCampsRetiringInflationYounger GenerationConcentration Camp Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.” PeopleMindStillsCountryFactsRealityAmericaYoungUsedEconomyLandCollegeHigherUniqueRateAveragePopulationThese DaysSuspectsGraduatesOther CountriesCollege EducationCollege GraduationHigher Learning Author:Paul Krugman
“Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.” KindPersonsFactsHomeBeautifulFacesYoungCertainFallLateSummerUglyWitchProfileYoung Ladies Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in) Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.” MenLooksMatterFactsWould BeYoungLyingOrderBeliefForceIssuesPolicyCitizensGayMen And WomenFellowsYoung ManThings To DoRight ThingAllowingChairmanPersonal Beliefs Author:Michael Mullen
“We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!” IfsWorldWayNeedsGivingMayMeanFactsWisdomFacesYoungSufferingPoliticsImaginationAbilityVisionEconomyEconomicTasksFaultsEnthusiasmGrantedLiberalismEconomic SystemsCorrectingDrastic Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.” PeopleMenYearsDoneFactsMovingYoungFoundBlackDeterminationRiversMoving ForwardConcreteFloatingMississippiLynchingEmmett Till Author:Fred Shuttlesworth
“Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.” NeedsHumansKindMomentsFactsEyeYoungCertainNextJesusNaturalAtheismTearsUniversalPositive AtheismHis EyesBehaviourTypicalMoronIdealistBigotsSuperhumanCrooksUniversal LoveHuman Behaviour Author:Margaret E. Knight