Francis Bacon Quotes
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
Nancy Gibbs -
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Bainbridge Colby -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson -
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Wayne Dyer -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
Ted Deutch -
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher -
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke -
I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
Ed Oxenbould -
I like to improvise.
Iris Apfel -
Pilates is great.
Orlando Bloom
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
Barry Humphries -
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
Cameron Russell -
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Victor Hugo -
I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.
Sam Hunt
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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
William Gibson -
Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
Yuri Milner -
My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
Anna Held -
I do my best to use all-natural type of products. I find that Perricone has really nice face cream. I find they have good facial products. Whenever I have a pimple, their products clear them up and make my skin nice and clean. Also, Kiehl's Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel-Cream.
Christine Flores -
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.
Francis Bacon