Francis Bacon Quotes
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri -
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster -
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons -
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood -
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai -
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Zac Brown Band
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
Cameron Crowe -
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
Hal Hartley -
Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
Oprah Winfrey -
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
Barack Obama -
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
Archibald Alexander -
It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
Ian Bremmer
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It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.
David Jeremiah -
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
Mark Steyn -
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. Doctorow -
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.
William James -
My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top -
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
Abraham Lincoln -
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis Bacon