Francis Bacon Quotes

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Francis Bacon

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• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Poetry

• I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Past
  • Always

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Compromise has a negative connotation.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Negative
  • Compromise

• I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Bored

• Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Job
  • High
  • Problem

• My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Hell
  • Office
  • Box

• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Good
  • Desire

• The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Today
  • Wall

• People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • New

• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Thought
  • Better

• As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• Under the Affordable Care Act everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Quality

• 'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Failure

• In pitching, control is the main thing-one thing you've got to have. Few pitchers have it. In batting, it is timing-waiting on the ball, not hurrying the swing-just as it is in golf. Most hitters in baseball swing too quickly. They can't wait on the pitch. Old Joe Jackson could wait. So could Speaker and Cobb

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Control
  • Waiting
  • Baseball

• When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely 'troubled.' At last, I thought, an admission. But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Wedding

• I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

  

  Adam Schein
  • Show
  • Talking
  • Listeners

• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Justice
  • Common
  • Overcoming

• The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Job
  • Action
  • Mood

• God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Speak

• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

  

  Francis Bacon