Francis Bacon Quotes
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
Jack Kerouac
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Larry Speakes
Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
Fatima Siad
Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
Valentina Zelyaeva
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
Dan Shechtman
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Dan Pink
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
Hafez
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
W. H. Auden
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams
My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
Hans Frank
I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
Wale
'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
Ted Sarandos
You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
Finley Peter Dunne
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
Walker Percy
One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Malcolm Muggeridge
People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
Lou Holtz
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
Leslie Marmon Silko
