Francis Bacon Quotes

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Francis Bacon

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• Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • Always
  • Need

• I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • See
  • Worth
  • Seeing

• To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• I've always wanted to win in my hometown.

  

  Paula Creamer

• If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Work
  • Job
  • Support

• I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

  

  James Roday
  • Time
  • College
  • Weird

• When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

  

  Alexandra Paul
  • Car
  • Angry

• The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?

  

  James Stephens
  • Live
  • King

• I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Up

• Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Important
  • Political
  • Responsibility

• You're not always going to look super glamorous in the morning when you wake up. Everything's not perfect.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

  

  Jared Harris
  • Time
  • Good
  • Real

• I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

  

  Duff Goldman
  • Balance

• I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Scary

• I had a hard time in high school.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.

  

  Nelly

• The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Work
  • Change
  • Child

• It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Job
  • Freedom
  • Imagine

• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Lie

• In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Government
  • September
  • Enterprises

• The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

  

  Andy Greenwald
  • Come
  • Within
  • Impediments

• Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Enterprises
  • Impediments
  • Spouses