Francis Bacon Quotes

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • School

• If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Try
  • Will

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • World
  • Done
  • Want

• I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • World
  • Live
  • Hope

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • World
  • More

• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Stop
  • Equal

• I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Champion
  • Gymnastics

• I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Love
  • Wise

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Peace
  • Try
  • Will

• When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • Work
  • Way

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Friends
  • New
  • New Friends

• There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • World
  • Peace
  • Christ