Francis Bacon Quotes

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Francis Bacon

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Growth

• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Man
  • Nothing

• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Man
  • Heaven

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • She
  • Kids

• I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Earned

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Mind
  • Society
  • You

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

  

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Grace
  • Loneliness
  • Fascination

• And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Stars
  • Touch
  • Straw

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I was a chubby kid, an outsider, and then all of a sudden I shot up to 6 foot 2, and people started calling me handsome. I couldn't accept it; I couldn't see it.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • People
  • Up

• She had a lot of empathy. Maybe that’s why she liked all those bad boys. They were outcasts. It was like she was picking up strays and taking them in. It’s like she could see past their rough exteriors and see the parts of them that hurt. Maybe she thought she could take away the hurt. She was wrong, of course. But I found it hard to fault her for her good heart.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hurt
  • Empathy
  • Fault

• Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Society
  • Man
  • Protection