Francis Bacon Quotes

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Movie
  • First

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
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  • Pain
  • Strength

• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
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  • See

• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  

  Lady Gregory
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  • Country
  • Journey

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
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  • Hope
  • Questions

• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• I was a very, very good congressman.

  

  Dan Maffei
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  • Very
  • Congressman

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Hope
  • Spring
  • Poland

• I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Mother
  • Makeup

• I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • Home
  • College

• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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  • Good
  • Parents

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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  • Society
  • Stop

• When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.

  

  Billy Crystal
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  • Hope

• Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Good
  • Peace

• If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Films

• I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Work
  • Humble

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  

  Francis Bacon
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  • Bad
  • Hope