Francis Bacon Quotes

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon

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• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Thing

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Good
  • Luck

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Now

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Human
  • Innocent
  • Class

• I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Real
  • Think
  • Election

• I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Different
  • Know

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bored

• What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.

  

  Hans Frank

• When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Fool

• The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, 'No, I'm happy for you?' That's when it's really sad.

  

  John Mayer
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Smile

• I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Great
  • Culture

• I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • True
  • Career
  • Support

• I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.

  

  Kirby Smart

• I find in most circumstances, people leave bosses, not companies.

  

  John Rampton
  • People

• I'm the world's greatest fan of your President Ronald Reagan, as you know. I think he's done terrific things and I think that in his recent speech, the keynote that he struck, that America is a confident leader of the free world, is the right one and I'm absolutely delighted at the way in which confidence had returned to the United States.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • Done
  • America

• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  

  Francis Bacon