Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter De Vries

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

John Milton

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

Miguel de Cervantes

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

Eknath Easwaran

The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.

John Lancaster Spalding

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

Joanna Newsom

I can bear a lot but not that pall

Elizabeth Goudge

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

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.

Louis Auchincloss

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

Oswald Spengler

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Louis Pasteur

Happy is he who bears a god within.

Todd Walker

You could probably tell me better than I'd know, but the Bears fans may have been different than Cubs fans,

You couldn't have had a worse year for news than 2005. You had the London bombings, the hurricanes, oil prices shooting up, yet the bears still couldn't take down the market.

Max Weber

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

The dollar is gradually moving out of its sweet spot. Once the Fed's tightening cycle is over, dollar bears are going to focus on the current-account deficit again.

The dollar bears have tried to get a foothold but they have not been successful. You scratch the surface of the data and you say, it's not all that bad.

Kunal Kapoor

The fund got whipsawed. There was some real underperformance here. Part of it was the manager, but Merrill Lynch bears some of the responsibility.

Kunal Kapoor

The fund got whipsawed, ... There was some real underperformance here. Part of it was the manager, but Merrill Lynch bears some of the responsibility.

Plutarch

The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune

Ovid

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

Rachel Caine

Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!

Peter Singer

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

Primo Levi

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

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.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Sarah Dessen

All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Robert Jordan

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Virgil

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Wallace Stevens

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

Samuel Richardson

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.