Quotes of: Bearings Keyword

I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

Adam Beach

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Ann Bancroft

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Alex Lowe

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Alex Lowe

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

Tamae Watanabe

...how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

Life

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

William Bligh

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

W. H. Murray

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Bela Lugosi

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

News flash: The whole thing is a huge mess and a giant nightmare and it’s all about to explode in your face and you have no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into. Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eif...

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

So the gods must mean something else,” said Jix. “God, not gods!” insisted Johnnie. Nick threw up his hands. “God, gods, or whatever,” said Nick. “Right now, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Jesus, or Kukulcan, or a dancing bear at the ...

Everfound

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sa...

Handle with Care

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned...

Red Country

When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and on the outside, arranged on arcs of fine wire, electr...

Tangle of Need

Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren't, so when they act like lions you're angry at them for not being the fantasy animals you imagined. Russian bears don't put on top hats and ride unicycles. Or sleep in bed nex...

White Apples

The high ground of Christ & Him crucified must be claimed in our preaching. Any other footing is a slippery slope that inevitably descends downward into vain rhetoric and mere words. To the contrary, every pulpit must present a towering vision of the...

Steven J. Lawson

Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough; t...

Henry Van Dyke

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of...

Alex Kerr