Bears Quotes - Page 7

• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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• Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dance, Stars, Long

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Football, Games

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• He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Suicide, Lying, Valiant

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• Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wall, Spring, Rain

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.148, e-artnow

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• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  Smile, People, Annoyed

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

  Lauren Kate

  Should Have, California, Eternity

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.556, Delacorte Press

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• The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Freedom, Responsibility

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Freedom, Independent, Gun

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

  Mark Twain

  God, Burden, Critics

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Men, Occupation

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• Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

  John Henry Newman

  Health, Blessing, Mind

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Humor, Men

  Aristotle (2015). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Pills, Life Is

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Samuel Johnson (1826). “Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life”, p.65

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• With aching hands and bleeding feet
  We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
  We bear the burden and the heat
  Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
  Not till the hours of light return
  All we have built do we discern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Hands

  'Parting' (1852) l. 19

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• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

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• Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views,
  Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
  Shall he not rather feel a double share
  Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

  George Crabbe

  Life, Pain, Views

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.71

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• A sacred burden is this life ye bear,
  Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
  Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly;
  Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
  But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

  Fanny Kemble

  Life, Failure, Winning

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• I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Would Be, Hereafter

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1884). “John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures; Or Plain Advice for Plain People: In One Volume”

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• I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

  Giannina Braschi

  Life, Love Is, Hair

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2012.

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• One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Hate, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

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• Lady, for indeed
  I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
  I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
  Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
  I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
  I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
  Than to be loved again of you - farewell;
  And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
  Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• Love is like fire.
  Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.

  Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

  Life, Love Is, Fire

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• Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
  To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
  To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
  Is there no bright reversion in the sky
  For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

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