Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

James A. Baldwin

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

Jacqueline Carey

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

Horace

Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

Harriet Beecher Stowe

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

I don't think this is the beginning of a significant correction in the stock market. I believe the market is overdue to have a correction of 5 to 7 percent, but not a bear market.

William Shakespeare

I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woolen

If it bears fruit in France, it's a pump-primer for the rest of the world.

Marvin Harris

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

If every business that was sending out unsolicited commercial e-mail had to hear back from all the 300,000 people they ... (made angry), and they had to bear the cost of that, folks would realize it's not the most effective means of getting your message out.

I certainly believe that we're in a bear market and we're going test the lows that we established last week, and that we will go through them. But there will be life after the bear market.

I don't think the evidence supports the view that we will get there. But it's a situation that bears watching.

I do think this is a lull in the market rather than a new bear trend. One month does not a trend make.

James Cosmo

I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.

William Shakespeare

As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife

As bear numbers increase they are getting into places they haven't been seen in 50 or 100 years.

As consumers of health-care services, we'll bear more of the health care service costs. People need to know how to take care of themselves.

Christiane Amanpour

His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing.

It was an extreme measure. Bear in mind 150 people would have been sitting in this thing as it would have blasted off, literally like a rocket, to get out of the stadium.

Curt Schilling

Warming up for the second inning, I threw my split-finger and everything clicked. The first two starts, I haven't felt like I've been consistently bearing the pitch well and I didn't feel like I've been throwing it at a good angle. And I threw it and it was exactly what I wanted it to be from a feel standpoint. And mentally, I was like, 'There it is.' From that point on, when I needed a strikeout, I felt very comfortable about command, fastball-wise, and about the fact I could bury my split in the ground.

Euripides

Bear calamities with meekness.

Rob Portman

It is time for the EU to step forward (with an offer) or bear the responsibility for derailing the Doha Round.

It's great to be here. I thank you. Ah, I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.

Terry Collins

It was a matter of us having managers in charge that let little things go and not paying attention. You can have little things that actually have very little bearing on the public's health, but flat tear you up on a health inspection.

Stephen Nichols

It was a rough weekend and it's not indicative of our season, but I don't know, sometimes you get the bear and sometimes it gets you, and I guess it got us. I'm still very proud of these guys.

It was an Alana Beard show tonight, ... Our goal is to get 10 steals a game, that's the entire team. So if someone gets seven, that's a phenomenal show.

Kyle Orton

It's back to work. We've got a big game this week and it's too big of a game to be concentrating on off-the-field stuff that really has no bearing on it.

Sometimes, you have to bear down and just say you're not going to go down like that, ... Sometimes, you have to dig a little deep.

Robert Baker

I believe one day it will be $5 a gallon. I'm trying to grin and bear it because there's nothing I can do about it.

I believe that every human being endowed with intelligence, memory, and strength of character bears within him a little of thc supernatural as well. The highest purpose of the conductor is to release this superhuman potential in every one of his musicians.

Michael O'Brien

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.

In December 2004, U.S. interest rates were at 2.25 per cent and people were expecting them to top out at 3.0 per cent -- the Fed hikes this year have been the catalyst for an end to the dollar's bear run.