Francis Bacon Quotes

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

Francis Bacon

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
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• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • Way
  • Born

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Earth

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Own

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• She will promise you more Than the Garden of Eden Then she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding.

  

  Billy Joel
  • She
  • Promise
  • Garden

• Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Discovered
  • Advanced
  • Vladimir Putin

• If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Live
  • Enemy

• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Laughter
  • Glitter
  • Pretentious

• In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Enemy
  • Glory
  • Revenge