Francis Bacon Quotes

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Francis Bacon

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Working
  • Start
  • Something

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Vice

• I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • I Love
  • Director
  • Fantastic

• 3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Career
  • Ambition

• For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • May
  • High
  • Safety

• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  

  Ella Fitzgerald
  • Trying
  • Inspiration
  • Give Up

• I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • American

• Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

  

  Jill Scott
  • War
  • Poverty

• I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

  

  Caroline Shaw
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Up
  • Stock

• When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Together
  • Pain

• If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Simple

• Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Yourself
  • Jump

• Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • World
  • American
  • Free

• The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Enemy
  • New York
  • Politician

• Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

  

  Pythagoras
  • Flesh
  • Wickedness
  • Swallow

• Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life Is A
  • Swallow
  • Marshmallow