Francis Bacon Quotes

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Francis Bacon

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• The art of life is to show your hand.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Life
  • Art
  • Hand

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  

  Walt Disney
  • End
  • Independence
  • Symbol

• Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

  

  Barry Switzer
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Show
  • Rejection
  • Fortunate

• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Everything
  • Results
  • Strive

• I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Parents
  • Know
  • See

• Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

  

  Louise Bogan
  • Believe

• And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.

  

  Jon Porter
  • Believe

• Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Health

• The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.

  

  David Elkind
  • Work
  • Satisfaction
  • Maturity

• God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

  

  William R. Alger
  • God
  • Gift
  • Whispers

• Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

  

  F. R. Leavis
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Literature

• God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • God
  • Grace
  • Sovereign

• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Genius
  • Mistakes
  • Impunity

• I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • Never
  • Distance
  • Saying

• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Conscious
  • Tried
  • Rock Star

• [When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

  

  Carol Mann
  • Golf
  • Chess
  • High School

• My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.

  

  Neel Burton
  • Political
  • Principle
  • Solidarity

• It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Tried
  • Fancy
  • Self-contradictory