Francis Bacon Quotes

Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.

Francis Bacon

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Going
  • Putin

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Risk

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Actor

• People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Film

• If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Career

• For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat's highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Dark
  • Makeup
  • Foundation

• I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Class
  • System

• But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Never

• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Rock

• Her hair is Harlow gold Her lips a sweet surpriseHer hands are never cold She's got Bette Davis eyes

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

  

  David Ferry
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Identity

• I would go and see loads of films all in one go and they'd start to merge together. It was a bit sad, really. I'd have to see it again.

  

  Mary Hansen
  • Together
  • Sad
  • Start

• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

  

  Ellen Goodman
  • Distance

• When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

  

  Alex Blumberg
  • Business
  • Help
  • Launching

• No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Home
  • Business
  • Guy

• Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.

  

  Francis Bacon