Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Auchincloss

I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.

Ellen Glasgow

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

John Keats

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.

Rachel Caine

Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!

Tim O'Brien

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.

Leymah Gbowee

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Marcus Aurelius

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Thomas a Kempis

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

Thomas a Kempis

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

Thomas a Kempis

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Simone Weil

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Oswald Spengler

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Ovid

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Gustave Flaubert

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

Joseph Epstein

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

Thomas Jefferson

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

Tacitus

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Richard Paul Evans

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Thomas S. Monson

The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

Stephen Fry

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Rupert Sheldrake

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Tony Kornheiser

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Victoria Woodhull

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Vernon Howard

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

Vernon Howard

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.