Bears Quotes
2692 Bears quotes by 1728 unique authors
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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears…
— Joseph Epstein
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I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be…
— Sarah Fielding
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The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who…
— John Verdon
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The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear…
— William J. Clinton
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Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins,…
— Henry Beston
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that…
— William Cowper
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Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go.…
— Nhat Hanh
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As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does…
— Stephen Leacock
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you not only elevate yourself but also the person who bears you…
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die…
— George Crabbe
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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
— Peter De Vries
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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
— Peter De Vries
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but…
— Henry Adams
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I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must bear what Heaven sends.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear.
— Horace
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To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
— Wilfred Bion
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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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