Francis Bacon Quotes

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Francis Bacon

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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • New
  • Opportunities
  • Wave

• Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Passion

• He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Mind

• We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Rap

• It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • World
  • Live
  • Control

• I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.

  

  Jason Blum

• The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.

  

  David Ignatius
  • People
  • World
  • Truth

• I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

  

  Matt Roper
  • Truth
  • Crying

• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Up
  • War
  • America

• It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

  

  John Forsythe
  • Age
  • Sex

• Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Technology

• Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy.

  

  Marg Helgenberger
  • Women
  • Sassy

• Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

  

  Denis Kearney
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy

• And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf his present repute for the freedom to think,And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Present

• Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special with Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour (1 June 2016)

  

  Barack Obama
  • June

• Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Decay
  • Cracks

• In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Decay

• So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

  

  Homer
  • Decay
  • Shalt

• Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • America
  • France
  • Diplomats

• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Decay
  • Plots
  • Ciphers