Bears Quotes - Page 18

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

I have only my own burden to bear.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

I'm old enough to remember the days when you spoke to one person from one outlet and that was the conversation. But now what happens is you speak to people and what you say gets translated into Portuguese, then into Mandarin, through a German prism and then back into English and bears little to no resemblance between - to the exchange or - that you had initially with the journalist or to what you originally said.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.