Francis Bacon Quotes

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Francis Bacon

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• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Military
  • Army

• I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Person

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • World
  • America
  • Focus

• I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.

  

  Alain Ducasse

• Shaking's great. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped. Yeah, I would recommend it.

  

  Jerome Flynn
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Energy

• As a kid, baseball was always my passion.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • Passion
  • Baseball

• With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Music
  • Band

• Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Up
  • Trying

• I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Job
  • Coal
  • Mining

• What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Time
  • Good
  • Blow

• You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Fall
  • Universe
  • Sky

• Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Passion

• The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Hurt

• I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Reality

• I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.

  

  La'el Collins
  • Life
  • May
  • Kids

• As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Artist
  • Ambassadors

• The bear would have to be stopped. Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn’t blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Blame
  • Bear
  • Distinction

• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • People
  • Sing
  • Cried

• A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Character
  • Vices
  • Shyness

• If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Vices
  • Sinner
  • Virtuous Man