We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?
Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities. '
One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are gentrifying your neighborhood and opening Thai restaurants, that's a poor neighborhood.
But I have an African or Indian approach to what I find. I like to make use of everything. I can't bear to throw things away - a nice wine bottle, a nice box. Sometimes I feel like a wizard in Toytown, transforming a bunch of carrots into pomegranates.
One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.
Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people.
If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.
That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.
There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
