Francis Bacon Quotes

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Find
  • Architecture

• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real

• Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Like
  • Look
  • Oil

• I'm not really into rap.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Rap
  • Really

• At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Work
  • Done
  • Quality

• I honestly feel like 99 percent of people have some kind of self-hate about their looks, and if I can joke about mine, maybe they can feel better about theirs.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Hate

• It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.

  

  Lewis Howes

• I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Remember
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • People
  • City
  • Chicago

• The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can't possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • People
  • Important

• It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law... Just who do we think we are?

  

  John Roberts
  • Law
  • Marriage
  • Vision

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Lies

• I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • I Think
  • Relation
  • Groups

• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Countries
  • Pure
  • Altruism

• I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • True
  • Feeling

• The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Pure
  • Passes
  • Dirty Places