Francis Bacon Quotes
…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…Francis Bacon
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley -
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies -
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
Wayne Huizenga -
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo -
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves -
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
Maajid Nawaz
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
Naya Rivera -
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles -
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
Edmund Barton -
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Karl Lagerfeld -
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel -
People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
Vikram Chatwal
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley -
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
Yuna -
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.
Cam
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch -
I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
Mark McKinnon -
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
Peter Drucker -
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
Francis Bacon -
…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…
Francis Bacon