Francis Bacon Quotes

Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Francis Bacon

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• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Different
  • Government
  • Legal

• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Respect
  • Joy
  • Feel

• The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Perfect
  • Most
  • Which

• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Learning

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Fit

• The leader of the band is tiredAnd his eyes are growing oldBut his blood runs through my instrumentAnd his song is in my soul -My life has been a poor attemptTo imitate the man.I'm just a living legacyTo the leader of the band.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Song

• I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I grew up with action movies in my head.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Up
  • Action

• Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

  

  Bill Kristol

• Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!

  

  Karen Civil
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer

• The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

  

  George Will
  • Political
  • Tradition
  • Skepticism

• If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Business
  • Perfect
  • Virtue

• Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Life
  • Real
  • Book

• Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Death
  • Afraid
  • Writer

• It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • War
  • Details
  • Harder

• Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Virtue
  • Crushed
  • Fragrant