It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how… — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student… — Darrell Royal Copy Share Image
The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
