Francis Bacon Quotes

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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• In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and their scholarly debates and wide knowledge and Sufi way. These were the people who would conquer the face of the earth!

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Play
  • Potential
  • Follow

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Three

• In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • Friends
  • End

• Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Like
  • Down
  • Debt

• I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Heart
  • Why
  • May

• To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Past
  • Water
  • Wine

• To have hundreds of people from every political and demographic group you can imagine coming out day after day to take part in the national health care debate is fantastic.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People
  • Political
  • Health

• By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Car

• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

  

  Buddha
  • Peace

• I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

  

  Len Cariou

• Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just tried harder.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Father
  • Style
  • Cool

• I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Music
  • Long
  • Remember

• I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

  

  Louis Leakey
  • Up
  • Tree

• Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Stop
  • Achievement
  • Excellence

• The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Law
  • Philosophy

• The only risk of failure is promotion.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Promotion

• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Moral
  • Perspective
  • Grief

• If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Hill
  • Mahomet