Bears Quotes - Page 35

• We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will blaze up on its own. In the meantime, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beauty, Fire, Ideas

  Tony Hoagland, “Grammar”

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• If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Catholic, Trials

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• You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Guilt, Faults, Ifs

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• 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?

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Business, Add

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.157

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• The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

  J. D. Trout

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Blessing

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• The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

  Faith Popcorn

  Past, Resemblance

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

  Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

  Confidence, Men, Sausage

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• Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

  Seth Godin

  Pain, Choices, Saying Yes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Fitness, Truth, Practice

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Play, Bird, Trios

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiving, Serious, Weakness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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