There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.
If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
There's always a fine line between 'What is the market going to bear?' and, 'By the way, I've got 2,000 unsold seats.'
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
The essential thing is to bear always in mind that trouble can appear at any time.
Be aware.Be ready.Be alert.
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.
[Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
You know, most girls sleep with a teddy bear or an extra pillow. But I gotta say, that's kinda hot.
I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.
With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.
Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.
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