The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had… — Horace Copy Share Image
The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow-through our premature death or through His unexpected coming-what would we do today?… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West;… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When Marvel put together Ultimate Spider-Man and someone came up with the idea of having Principal Coulson, they said, "Do you want… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let's be honest: Ignoring is acting, and nothing more — acting as though the words or actions of your oppressors don't hurt.… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My best Valentine's Day was when someone gave me a teddy bear. It was a really, really big bear! — Dinah-Jane Hansen Copy Share Image
Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do,… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
