Quotes of: Bearings Keyword

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Doris Lessing

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Andrew Garfield

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

William Bligh

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Amber Heard

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Albert Pike

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

Arthur Phillips

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

Paul Watson

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.

Love

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

William Shakespeare

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

William John Wills

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon th...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trouble can be purchased cheaply, though the refund may be more than you can bear.

Creatures of Light and Darkness

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

Ethical Motivations