Francis Bacon Quotes

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Francis Bacon

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Me
  • Face
  • Helps

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Loving

• The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Strong
  • Emotion
  • Talk

• After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Single
  • Band

• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Help
  • Words

• The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World

• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)

  

  E. O. Wilson

• Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Hurt

• In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Time

• It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • School
  • Kids
  • Popular

• I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Know
  • Happen

• The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • Attack
  • Ideology

• Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

  

  Francis Bacon