Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk… — Robert Leckie Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man… — Plato Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge.… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
