Francis Bacon Quotes

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Francis Bacon

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• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Have
  • Dresses
  • Many

• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• You cannot rely on other people's support.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nice

• The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • American
  • Woman
  • Down

• I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Long
  • Reading
  • Day

• False praise is worse than no praise.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Praise
  • Worse
  • False

• I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Love
  • Like
  • Coats

• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Up
  • God
  • Important

• If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

  

  Pauline Hanson
  • People

• People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Green

• Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

  

  Francis Bacon