Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can. — Horace Copy Share Image
I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear… — Horace Copy Share Image
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it.… — Julian Gough Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 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
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows.… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
We have to work under the assumption that the things that we fought hard for to protect women will be under assault,… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear. — Salman al-Ouda Copy Share Image
Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear… — Cotton Mather 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
