Francis Bacon Quotes

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Francis Bacon

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• Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Try

• You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Worry
  • Numbers
  • Repetition

• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Chance
  • Start
  • Flying

• I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Love
  • Career
  • Singing

• The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Never

• You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

  

  Bradley Whitford

• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Wind
  • Sky

• If you love animals, don't eat them.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Love
  • Animals
  • Eat

• We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Products
  • Adam
  • Descendants

• This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Come

• It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • True
  • Perfectly

• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Why
  • Free
  • Fear

• God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • Live
  • Children

• Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Best
  • Service
  • Story

• I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Girl

• My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • World
  • House
  • Rest

• He was a real thin, real great-in-shape guy, ... Our heart goes out when something like that happens. You usually just imagine one of our guys. It just devastates everybody. It's a huge loss to everybody.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Real
  • Heart

• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  

  William Petty
  • Seven
  • Quantity
  • Commodity

• One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Caught
  • Seven
  • Cobwebs