Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

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.

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

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.

Howard Berman

I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

P. J. O'Rourke

By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

By nature, we're compassionate people. Women bear children and they have that instinct to take care of people. And that kind of spills over to governing.

But we are confident that we have the right strategies and that our restructuring measures will bear substantial fruit this year,

Don Shula

He took over a program that was going through a lot of problems and he's trying to get it turned around, ... This would be a big step for him. (A win) would show they are headed in the right direction . . . That's a big job he's got, following Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama, 83,000 people. . . . College football is just very exciting. The fans are so loyal.

William Shakespeare

He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee does bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe.

Charles Fox

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Kenneth Clark

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

Gloria Steinem

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

Cat Stevens

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

The last seven 'bear' markets -- if you measure a bear market by a 20 percent drop -- have quickly forecast economic recessions. For people with 90 percent of their net worth tied up in a small business, it bears watching.

The main source of inflow to the lake is the Bear River system.

Michael Gambon

The main problem is gluing the beard on. It takes 15 minutes, but I could have a really complicated scene to play and worry more about the beard.

Ellen Glasgow

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms.

And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

Henry Fielding

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.