Francis Bacon Quotes

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Party

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Own
  • Ever
  • My Own

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Hate
  • Others
  • Interfere

• Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • She
  • True
  • Said

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• I don't like to tell lies.

  

  Hal Ashby
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Tell

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Together
  • Earth

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • College
  • Going
  • Doctor

• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • God
  • Jesus

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Life
  • Children

• Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Real
  • Power
  • Revolution

• There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Miracle
  • Confess