Bears Quotes · Page 49

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

— Margaret Drabble

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't…

— Sam Taylor-Wood

There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is…

— Hermann Hesse

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

— Sylvain Tesson

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived…

— John Wesley

In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it…

— Stephen Halbrook

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not…

— Mary McCarthy

The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association…

— Jim Keith

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats…

— Ted Cruz

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

— John Dryden

“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but…

— Rudyard Kipling

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration…

— Barbara Jordan

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior…

— Vincent de Paul

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept…

— Vaclav Havel

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate…

— Hartley Coleridge

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an…

— Pat Buchanan

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog…

— Oscar Wilde

I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of…

— Tony Blair

[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something…

— Matthew Zapruder

You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call…

— Saint Basil

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

— May Sarton