Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Weber

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

Pablo Neruda

We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

John Updike

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

Peter De Vries

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

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.

Colton Haynes

The trick is after a workout you're supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out. Of course, it's all about protein, too, but right before you're filming a shirtless scene, you have a little bit of sugar to pop the veins.

Joanna Newsom

I can bear a lot but not that pall

Elizabeth Goudge

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Eknath Easwaran

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

Louis Auchincloss

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

Plutarch

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

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.

Gustave Flaubert

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

John Lancaster Spalding

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

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.]

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.

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.

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.

Terry Goodkind

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

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.

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.

Simone Weil

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

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.