Bears Quotes - Page 37

• Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Albert Schweitzer (1949). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, New York : H. Holt

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• We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Black, Trust Myself, Innocence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.325

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• One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

  Joe Slovo

  Country, Fruit, Process

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• My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Past, Giving

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• 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.

  Cornel West

  Greed, Decision, Goes On

  "Cornel West, A Fighter, Angers Obama Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, www.npr.org. October 24, 2011.

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• Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Teddy Bear, Honestly, Teddy

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• No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Song, Writing

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• 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.

  Patricia Hampl

  Prayer, Focus, Attention

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• Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

  Joseph Pilates

  Men, Greek, Mind

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• Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

  J. P. Morgan

  Country, Men, Investing

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• The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Way, Be Kind, Kind

  Alastair Reynolds, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Baxter, Hannu Rajaniemi, Paul Graham Raven (2012). “Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins”, p.39, Arc

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• Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Happens

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

  Richard Eder

  Night, Mind, Bed

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• The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

  Andrew Marvell

  Two Nations, World, Two

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.91

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• Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Sea, Praying

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• There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Hurt, Revenge

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• Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order that our heavenly Father may 'forgive us our trespasses' (Mt. 6:14). Thus, with all your soul honor and love in every man the image of God, not regarding his sins, for God alone is Holy and without sin; and see how He loves us, how much He has created and still creates for us, punishing us mercifully and forgiving us bounteously and graciously. Honor the man also, in spite of his sins, for he can always amend.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Father, Men

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• If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with Him His body and the tokens of His Passion, which He had not when He came down, and who therefore inquire, 'Who is this King of Glory?' that it is the Lord strong and mighty, as in all things that He has done from time to time and does, so now in His battle and triumph for the sake of Mankind.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Strong, Kings

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• Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Adversity, Heart

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• When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Delay, Action, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.20, Paladin Press

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• When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Ties, Faults

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Nature, Reflection, Landscape

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grieving, Men

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027".

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• All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

  Claude Monet

  Looks, Brushes, Witness

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