Francis Bacon Quotes

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Radio
  • Holocaust

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Because

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Women
  • War
  • Mask

• The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Girl
  • Story
  • Mine

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Hollywood

• I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Week
  • Healthy
  • Jeans

• I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Before
  • Sixteen
  • Partying

• 'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Fighting
  • Drinking

• Only God can stop Kobe Bryant.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • God
  • Stop

• I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Remember

• There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Ambition

• The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Country
  • Decision
  • Wise

• Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wise
  • Wings
  • Fly Away