Each of us bears his own Hell.

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.

— Virgil

I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

— Ai Weiwei

And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not…

— Anonymous

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold…

— James McBride

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of…

— Jean Houston

...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has…

— George Henry Borrow

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

— Bob Newhart

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but…

— Anne Ursu

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

— Anonymous