No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.
The wise man. . . if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.
If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.
Tumblr has a big community of bears and bear chasers. All my favorites on Tumblr and all the fan mail I get is all like, "We want to tickle you! What size shoe are you?" They're all like really big, heavyset, bearded guys who are like, "I want to ride your face like a motorcycle!"
Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?
Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth. . . was more than he felt able to bear. . . . his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.
I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.
A lot of people who didn't understand the need for civilians to bear arms on Sept. 10 were pretty clear on the issue by Sept. 12.
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.
Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.
The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.