Bears Quotes - Page 31

• Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Book, Cutting

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• Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

  David Bronstein

  Mind, Battle, Chess

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• My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Animal, Light

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• When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Country, Animal

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• It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Summer, Mean, Autumn

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• And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

  Kathleen Raine

  Clouds, Sky, Tree

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

  Robert Gordon Sproul

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• Bear patiently with a rival.

  Ovid

  Patience, Enemy, Rivals

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• Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

  Max Lucado

  Forgiveness, Apples, People

  Max Lucado (2012). “Make Every Day Count - Teen Edition: Wake Up and Live!”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Israel, Agony, Holocaust

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• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.

  Jean Amery

  Morning, Mean, Blow

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• This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Anxiety, Spirit, Witness

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.132, Penguin Books India

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• Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

  Alamgir Hashmi

  Flower, Moving, Future

  Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”

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• Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

  Paul Goldberger

  Architecture, Building, Structure

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.

  Marian Gold

  Quiet, Understood

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• Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, World

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• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Genius, Mediocrity, Chess

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• There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Different, Neighbor

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

  John Herman Randall

  Desire, Faces, Individual

  John Herman Randall (1911). “A New Philosophy of Life”

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• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Powerful, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Courage, Powerful, Healing

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• The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Courage, Flower, Inspiration

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• Dog owners are out in all kinds of weather. They tell you it's small payment for the love their dogs bear them. Some love. If that dog weren't on a leash, he'd be off after another dog, a cat, or any stranger walking along the street with a wet bag of meat.

  Selma Diamond

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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