Francis Bacon Quotes
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
Patrick Kane -
With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
R. Kelly -
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson -
Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
Zainab Salbi -
I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Uzo Aduba -
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy -
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
Ziyi Zhang -
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
Otto Schily -
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison -
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot -
El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
Antonio Porchia
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These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.
Pierre Beaumarchais -
I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
Christina Aguilera -
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.
Walt Dohrn -
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
Oscar Wilde
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Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
Erik Larson -
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Francis Bacon