Francis Bacon Quotes

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Francis Bacon

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• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Want
  • Might

• The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Virtue
  • Ever
  • Sciences

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• I love owning my masters.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Masters
  • Owning

• Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Poetry
  • Jazz
  • Slave

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Best

• Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Live
  • Real
  • Energy

• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Matter

• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Water

• Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Done
  • Death
  • Man

• We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Measure
  • Our
  • Sum

• In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Ice

• It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Consumers
  • Retail

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Business
  • Professional
  • Boxing

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • Choices
  • Anxiety

• It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

  

  Francis Bacon