Francis Bacon Quotes
So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Saint Augustine -
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini -
If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
Yossi Vardi -
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute -
My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
Adam DeVine -
It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
Katee Sackhoff -
It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
Karen Morley -
We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
Rachael Taylor
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer -
I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
Ichiro Suzuki -
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
Albert Einstein -
Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.
Alissa Quart -
So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
Francis Bacon