The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.
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.
God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.
No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
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.
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.
What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.
Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.
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.
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.
Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
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.
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
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.
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.
Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
One of my favorite snacks is Chobani yogurt with Bear Naked granola, because it has all the nutrients I need; it's all-natural, and it has a lot of protein.
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.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
I don't know that we ever overcome doubt. We just have to remember that it's more than likely a poodle in the bushes and not a grizzly 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.
Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
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.
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.
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.
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.
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
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.
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.
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.
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?
Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.
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.
You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.
With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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