Bears famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
-- A. A. Milne -
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
-- Abigail Adams -
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
-- African Spir -
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
-- Agnes Repplier -
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)
-- Alan Lee -
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
-- Alexander Hume -
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
-- Alexander Pope -
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
-- Alexander Pope -
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
-- Alexander Pope -
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
-- Alexander Pope -
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
-- Alexander Smith -
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.
-- Alexander the Great -
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
-- Alfred Jarry -
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
-- Alice Cary -
I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
-- Alice Meynell -
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
-- Alison Bechdel -
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.
-- Alvin Boyd Kuhn -
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
-- Amy Adams -
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
-- Anais Nin -
Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
-- Anais Nin -
Women, for centuries not having access to ***** and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what ***** says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
-- Andrew Marvell -
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
-- Andrew Solomon -
I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
-- Ann Aguirre -
I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.
-- Anne Mallory -
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
-- Anne Rice -
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
-- Antonio Porchia -
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
-- Aristotle -
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
-- Arnold Bennett -
My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.
-- Art Alexakis -
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
-- Ashley Jensen -
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
-- Athol Fugard -
When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
-- Austin Grossman -
...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
-- Ayn Rand -
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
-- Barbara Walters -
Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.
-- Basilea Schlink -
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
-- Ben Affleck -
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
-- Benjamin F. Wade -
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
-- Benjamin Jowett -
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
-- Bernie Glassman -
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
-- Bette Midler -
All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.
-- Betty White -
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
-- Bias of Priene -
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,
-- Bill Gross -
If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.
-- Bill Withers -
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
-- Blanka Vlasic -
The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
-- Brennan Manning -
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
-- Brian Eno -
In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.
-- Bruce Kovner -
Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.
-- Catherine Breillat -
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown
-- Chaim Potok -
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
-- Charles Darwin -
True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
-- Charles Dickens -
"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"
-- Charles Dickens -
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
-- Charles Lamb -
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
-- Charles Lamb -
Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?
-- Charles Manson -
We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.
-- Charles Portis -
We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.
-- Charlotte Gray -
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
-- Chief Joseph -
There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other, namely the ever-increasing size of the world's population
-- Chris Packham -
Bear suits are funny - and bears as well.
-- Christopher Walken -
I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
-- Clive Owen -
Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
-- Colin Powell -
It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
-- Constance Fenimore Woolson -
The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.
-- Constantin Brancusi -
Hate is too great a burden to bear....
-- Coretta Scott King
