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

• Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Alone
  • Religious

• If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

  

  Dean Koontz

• One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Nature
  • Picture

• Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

  

  Joanne Rowling

• Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life
  • Dream

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

  

  Francis Bacon