He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them,… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of… — Peter York Copy Share Image
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In… — Hanne Blank Copy Share Image
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate,… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden. — Ouida Copy Share Image
I couldn't bear the road anymore. I'm sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I… — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long… — Statius Copy Share Image
Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you… — Jenny Nimmo Copy Share Image
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical &… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can’t bear those empty, staring eyes. — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
