Francis Bacon Quotes

Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Water

• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Down
  • Dinner

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Wise

• As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Men
  • Young
  • Leaving

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Envy
  • Influenced

• I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Energy
  • Resources
  • Most

• The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Sex

• The musical language which made the classical style possible is that of tonality, which was not a massive, immobile system but a living, gradually changing language from its beginning. It had reached a new and important turning point just before the style of Haydn and Mozart took shape.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Important
  • Style
  • Beginning

• Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Inspired