The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.
There's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
. . . Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.
HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie. . . it's not. . . " Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his heel and began to run away. "OLIVER, please,let me explain.
He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
You are my koala bear, and I am your tree.
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
