Bear Quotes

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.