Hand in hand they whispered for a while. The girl nodded and the bear laughed. Together, they made their way down the corridor and to the foot of the stairs.
After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.
How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to bite us.
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved—or not quite evolved enough—to bear the awful burden of its own existence.
It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.
They took a deep draught of the air, and felt that a skip and a few stout strides would bear them wherever they wished.
In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name.
Springtime blooms the starry tree Bearing fruit the mariners see. High by night and low by dawn The silver apple guides us home.
Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug. "Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!
Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.
Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burd...
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
