Francis Bacon Quotes

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Clothing

• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Never
  • Forget

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Know
  • Sweet
  • Argument

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Way
  • Smart
  • Safe

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Change
  • Risk
  • Climate Change

• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.

  

  Jessica Szohr

• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  

  Sampha
  • Want
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Words
  • Respect
  • Mastery

• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Up
  • Family
  • Age

• I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • People
  • Die

• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Light
  • Present
  • Shine