Francis Bacon Quotes

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Francis Bacon

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• If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Loss
  • Winner

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• 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 think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • World
  • Want
  • Problems

• The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Poor

• The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strong

• The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mind
  • Wind

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Challenge
  • Dumb

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  

  Jay Roach
  • Hope

• In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Time
  • Long
  • Chocolate

• I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

  

  Jan Karon
  • Time
  • Book
  • Remember

• Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • Nature

• One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Mad

• When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • People

• I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

  

  Jeffrey Tate

• The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Time
  • May
  • Character

• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Control
  • Give Up
  • Reaching

• A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Reader
  • Push

• You can't live in Orange County and train in Thousand Oaks. OK? you just can't. Not with the hours we put in. We have to be on time.

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Time
  • Live

• What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

  

  Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Individual

• Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Persons
  • Revenge
  • Deformed